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file: ./bibles/Sample/6/11/100000001
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\c 11
\p
\v 1 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
\v 2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
\v 3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
\v 4 They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
\v 5 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
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\v 6 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
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\v 7 So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
\v 8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
\v 9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
\v 10 Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.
\v 11 They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.
\v 12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
\v 13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
\v 14 The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.
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\v 15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
\v 17 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.
\v 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
\v 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.
\v 20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 21 Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
\v 22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
\v 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/12/100000001
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\c 12
\p
\v 1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
\v 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
\v 3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
\v 4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
\v 5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
\p
\v 6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
\v 7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
\v 8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
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\v 9 the king of Jericho, one;
\m the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
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\v 10 the king of Jerusalem, one;
\m the king of Hebron, one;
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\v 11 the king of Jarmuth, one;
\m the king of Lachish, one;
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\v 12 the king of Eglon, one;
\m the king of Gezer, one;
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\v 13 the king of Debir, one;
\m the king of Geder, one;
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\v 14 the king of Hormah, one;
\m the king of Arad, one;
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\v 15 the king of Libnah, one;
\m the king of Adullam, one;
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\v 16 the king of Makkedah, one;
\m the king of Bethel, one;
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\v 17 the king of Tappuah, one;
\m the king of Hepher, one;
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\v 18 the king of Aphek, one;
\m the king of Lassharon, one;
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\v 19 the king of Madon, one;
\m the king of Hazor, one;
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\v 20 the king of Shimron Meron, one;
\m the king of Achshaph, one;
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\v 21 the king of Taanach, one;
\m the king of Megiddo, one;
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\v 22 the king of Kedesh, one;
\m the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
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\v 23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one;
\m the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
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\v 24 the king of Tirzah, one:
\m all the kings thirty-one.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/13/100000001
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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
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\v 2 “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
\v 3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
\v 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
\v 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
\v 6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
\v 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
\v 8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
\v 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
\v 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
\v 11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
\v 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
\v 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.
\v 14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
\v 15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
\v 16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
\v 17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
\v 18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
\v 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
\v 20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
\v 21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
\v 22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
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\v 23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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\v 24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
\v 25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near Rabbah;
\v 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
\v 27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
\v 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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\v 29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
\v 30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
\v 31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
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\v 32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
\v 33 But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/14/100000001
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\c 14
\p
\v 1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
\v 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
\v 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
\v 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
\v 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
\p
\v 6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
\v 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
\v 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
\v 9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’
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\v 10 “Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
\v 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.
\v 12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”
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\v 13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
\v 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.
\v 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/15/100000001
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\c 15
\p
\v 1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
\v 2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;
\v 3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka;
\v 4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
\v 5 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.
\v 6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
\v 7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
\v 8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.
\v 9 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim);
\v 10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
\v 11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
\v 12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.
\p
\v 13 He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron).
\v 14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
\v 15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
\v 16 Caleb said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”
\v 17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
\v 18 When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”
\p
\v 19 She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.”
\p So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
\p
\v 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
\v 21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
\v 22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
\v 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
\v 24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
\v 25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (also called Hazor),
\v 26 Amam, Shema, Moladah,
\v 27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
\v 28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
\v 29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
\v 30 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
\v 31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
\v 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
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\v 33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
\v 34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
\v 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
\v 36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
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\v 37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
\v 38 Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
\v 39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
\v 40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
\v 41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
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\v 42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
\v 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
\v 44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
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\v 45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
\v 46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
\v 47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
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\v 48 In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
\v 49 Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),
\v 50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
\v 51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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\v 52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
\v 53 Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
\v 54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
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\v 55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
\v 56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
\v 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
\m
\v 58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
\v 59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
\v 60 Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
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\v 61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
\v 62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.
\p
\v 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/16/100000001
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\c 16
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\v 1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
\v 2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
\v 3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
\p
\v 4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
\v 5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
\v 6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.
\v 7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
\v 8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
\v 9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
\v 10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/17/100000001
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\c 17
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\v 1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
\v 2 So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida. These were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.
\v 3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\v 4 They came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
\v 5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
\v 6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
\v 7 The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
\v 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
\v 9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.
\v 10 Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
\v 11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
\v 12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
\p
\v 13 When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
\v 14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”
\p
\v 15 Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
\p
\v 16 The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
\p
\v 17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;
\v 18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/6/18/100000001
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\c 18
\p
\v 1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
\v 2 Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
\v 3 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
\v 4 Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me.
\v 5 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.
\v 6 You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
\v 7 However, the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”
\p
\v 8 The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.”
\p
\v 9 The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
\v 10 Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
\p
\v 11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
\v 12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
\v 13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
\v 14 The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.
\v 15 The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
\v 16 The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
\v 17 It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
\v 18 It passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.
\v 19 The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.
\v 20 The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.
\v 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
\v 22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
\v 23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
\v 24 Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
\v 25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
\v 26 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,
\v 27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
\v 28 Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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\v 1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
\v 2 They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
\v 3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,
\v 4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
\v 5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
\v 6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;
\v 7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
\v 8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
\v 9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the middle of their inheritance.
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\v 10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
\v 11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
\v 12 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
\v 13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
\v 14 The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
\v 15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
\v 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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\v 17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
\v 18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
\v 19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
\v 20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
\v 21 Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
\v 22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
\v 23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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\v 24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
\v 25 Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
\v 26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.
\v 27 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,
\v 28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.
\v 29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;
\v 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
\v 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
\p
\v 32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
\v 33 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
\v 34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
\v 35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
\v 36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
\v 37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
\v 38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
\v 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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\v 40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
\v 41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
\v 42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
\v 43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
\v 44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
\v 45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
\v 46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.
\v 47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.
\v 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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\v 49 So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
\v 50 According to Yahweh’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
\v 51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.


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\v 1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
\p
\v 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,\f + \fr 2:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”
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\v 3 Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”
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\v 4 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.
\v 5 About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
\v 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
\v 7 The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
\v 8 Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
\v 9 She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
\v 10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
\v 11 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
\v 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;
\v 13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”
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\v 14 The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
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\v 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
\v 16 She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
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\v 17 The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.
\v 18 Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
\v 19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
\v 20 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”
\p
\v 21 She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.
\p
\v 22 They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.
\v 23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.
\v 24 They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
\v 3 that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
\v 4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
\v 5 If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
\v 6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”
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\v 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
\v 8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
\v 9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.


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\v 1 Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
\v 2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”
\p
\v 3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.
\v 4 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
\v 5 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
\v 6 The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
\v 7 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
\v 8 The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
\v 9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:
\v 10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
\v 11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
\v 12 But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
\v 13 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,
\v 14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
\v 15 Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
\v 16 Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.
\v 17 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,
\v 18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
\p
\v 20 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
\v 21 They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
\v 22 Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 23 Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
\v 24 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 25 Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities.
\v 26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their pasture lands.
\p
\v 27 They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities.
\v 28 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
\v 29 Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 30 Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
\v 31 Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 32 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.
\v 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
\p
\v 34 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,
\v 35 Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 36 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,
\v 37 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.
\v 38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
\v 39 Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.
\v 40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
\p
\v 41 All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
\v 42 Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.
\p
\v 43 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.
\v 44 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
\v 45 Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.


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\v 1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
\v 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
\v 3 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
\v 4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
\v 5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
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\v 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
\v 7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
\v 8 and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”
\p
\v 9 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\v 10 When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
\v 11 The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar along the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”
\v 12 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
\v 13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.
\v 14 With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.
\v 15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
\v 16 “The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?
\v 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
\v 18 that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
\v 19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.
\v 20 Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”
\p
\v 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
\v 22 “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
\v 23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.
\p
\v 24 “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
\v 25 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
\p
\v 26 “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
\v 27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’
\p
\v 28 “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’
\p
\v 29 “Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”
\p
\v 30 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
\v 31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”
\v 32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
\v 33 The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.
\v 34 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”


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\v 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
\v 2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
\v 3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
\v 4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.
\v 5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.
\p
\v 6 “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
\v 7 that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
\v 8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
\p
\v 9 “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
\v 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
\v 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 12 “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
\v 13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
\p
\v 14 “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
\v 15 It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
\v 16 when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”


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\v 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
\v 2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
\v 3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring,\f + \fr 24:3 \ft or, seed\f* and gave him Isaac.
\v 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
\p
\v 5 “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
\v 6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
\v 7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
\p
\v 8 “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
\v 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
\v 10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
\p
\v 11 “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
\v 12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
\v 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
\p
\v 14 “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
\v 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
\p
\v 16 The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
\v 17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
\v 18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”
\p
\v 19 Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
\v 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
\p
\v 21 The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
\v 22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.”
\p They said, “We are witnesses.”
\p
\v 23 “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
\p
\v 24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
\p
\v 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
\v 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
\v 27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
\v 28 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
\p
\v 29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
\v 30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
\v 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
\v 32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.\f + \fr 24:32 \ft Hebrew: kesitahs. A kesitah was a kind of silver coin.\f* They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
\v 33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.


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\v 1 Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.
\v 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;
\v 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.
\v 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits\f + \fr 3:4 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters.\f* by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
\p
\v 5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
\p
\v 6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
\v 8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”
\p
\v 9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”
\v 10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
\v 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord\f + \fr 3:11 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
\v 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
\v 13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
\p
\v 14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
\v 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
\v 16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
\v 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.


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\v 1 When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\v 2 “Take twelve men out of the people, a man out of every tribe,
\v 3 and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’”
\p
\v 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.
\v 5 Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
\v 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
\v 7 then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”
\p
\v 8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.
\v 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
\v 10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
\v 11 When all the people had completely crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people.
\p
\v 12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.
\v 13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
\v 14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
\p
\v 15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
\v 16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
\p
\v 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
\v 18 When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
\v 19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
\p
\v 20 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
\v 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
\v 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
\v 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,
\v 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”


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\v 1 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.
\v 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
\v 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
\v 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.
\v 5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
\v 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\v 7 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
\v 8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal\f + \fr 5:9 \ft “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”\f* to this day.
\v 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
\v 11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
\v 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
\p
\v 13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
\p
\v 14 He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.”
\p Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
\p
\v 15 The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.


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\v 1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
\v 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
\v 3 All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
\v 4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
\v 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
\p
\v 6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”
\p
\v 7 They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
\p
\v 8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.
\v 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
\p
\v 10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
\v 11 So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
\v 12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
\v 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.
\v 14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
\p
\v 15 On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.
\v 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!
\v 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
\v 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
\v 19 But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
\p
\v 20 So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
\v 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
\v 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”
\v 23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
\v 24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
\v 25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
\p
\v 26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”
\v 27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.


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\v 1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
\v 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.”
\p The men went up and spied out Ai.
\v 3 They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
\v 4 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
\v 5 The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
\v 6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
\v 7 Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
\v 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
\v 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
\p
\v 10 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
\v 11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
\v 12 Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
\v 13 Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”
\v 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.
\v 15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
\p
\v 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
\v 17 He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.
\v 18 He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.
\v 19 Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”
\p
\v 20 Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.
\v 21 When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels\f + \fr 7:21 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
\p
\v 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
\v 23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.
\v 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
\v 25 Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
\v 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
\v 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
\p
\v 3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
\v 4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
\v 5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
\v 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
\v 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
\v 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
\p
\v 9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
\v 10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
\v 11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
\v 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
\v 13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
\v 14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
\v 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
\v 16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
\v 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
\p
\v 18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”
\p Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
\v 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
\v 20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
\v 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
\v 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
\v 23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
\p
\v 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
\v 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
\v 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
\v 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
\v 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
\v 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
\p
\v 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
\v 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
\v 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
\v 33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
\v 34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
\v 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.


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\v 1 When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
\v 2 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
\v 3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
\v 4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,
\v 5 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
\v 6 They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
\p
\v 7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
\p
\v 8 They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”
\p Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
\p
\v 9 They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
\v 10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
\v 11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’
\v 12 This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.
\v 13 These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
\p
\v 14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.
\v 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
\v 16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
\v 17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
\v 18 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
\v 19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.
\v 20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”
\v 21 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
\p
\v 22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?
\v 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
\p
\v 24 They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
\v 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
\p
\v 26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.
\v 27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.


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\v 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
\v 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
\p
\v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
\v 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
\v 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
\v 6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
\v 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
\v 8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
\v 9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
\v 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
\v 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
\v 12 To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
\p
\v 13 Therefore prepare your minds for action.\f + \fr 1:13 \ft literally, “gird up the waist of your mind” or “put on the belt of the waist of your mind”\f* Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
\v 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
\v 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
\v 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”\x + \xo 1:16 \xt Leviticus 11:44-45\x*
\v 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
\v 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
\v 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,
\v 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
\v 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
\p
\v 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
\v 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
\v 24 For,
\q1 “All flesh is like grass,
\q2 and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass.
\q1 The grass withers, and its flower falls;
\q2
\v 25 but the Lord’s word endures forever.”\x + \xo 1:25 \xt Isaiah 40:6-8\x*
\p This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.


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\v 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
\v 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
\v 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
\v 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
\v 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
\v 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 2:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה” or “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious:
\q2 He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”\x + \xo 2:6 \xt Isaiah 28:16 \x*
\p
\v 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,
\q1 “The stone which the builders rejected
\q2 has become the chief cornerstone,”\x + \xo 2:7 \xt Psalm 118:22\x*
\p
\v 8 and,
\q1 “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.”\x + \xo 2:8 \xt Isaiah 8:14\x*
\p For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
\v 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
\v 10 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
\p
\v 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
\v 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
\p
\v 13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
\v 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
\v 15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
\v 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
\p
\v 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
\p
\v 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
\v 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
\v 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
\v 21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you\f + \fr 2:21 \ft TR reads “us” instead of “you”\f* an example, that you should follow his steps,
\v 22 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”\x + \xo 2:22 \xt Isaiah 53:9\x*
\v 23 When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
\v 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.\f + \fr 2:24 \ft or, stripes\f*
\v 25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer\f + \fr 2:25 \ft “Overseer” is from the Greek ἐπίσκοπον, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.\f* of your souls.


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\v 1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
\v 2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
\v 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
\v 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
\v 5 For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
\v 6 So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
\p
\v 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
\p
\v 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
\v 9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
\v 10 For,
\q1 “He who would love life
\q2 and see good days,
\q1 let him keep his tongue from evil
\q2 and his lips from speaking deceit.
\q1
\v 11 Let him turn away from evil and do good.
\q2 Let him seek peace and pursue it.
\q1
\v 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
\q2 and his ears open to their prayer;
\q2 but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Psalm 34:12-16\x*
\p
\v 13 Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
\v 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”\x + \xo 3:14 \xt Isaiah 8:12\x*
\v 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
\v 16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
\v 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
\v 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
\v 19 in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
\v 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
\v 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
\v 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.


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\v 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
\v 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
\v 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
\v 4 They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
\v 5 They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
\v 6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
\p
\v 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
\v 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
\v 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
\v 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
\v 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 12 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
\v 13 But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
\v 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
\v 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
\v 16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
\v 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
\v 18 “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”\x + \xo 4:18 \xt Proverbs 11:31\x*
\v 19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.


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\v 1 Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
\v 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
\v 3 not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
\v 4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
\p
\v 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”\x + \xo 5:5 \xt Proverbs 3:34 \x*
\v 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
\v 7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
\p
\v 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
\v 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
\v 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
\v 11 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
\v 13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.
\v 14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.
\p Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.


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\v 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
\v 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
\v 3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
\v 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
\v 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
\v 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;
\v 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
\v 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
\v 10 Therefore, brothers,\f + \fr 1:10 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
\v 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
\v 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,
\v 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
\v 15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
\v 16 For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
\v 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”\x + \xo 1:17 \xt Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35\x*
\v 18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
\p
\v 19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
\v 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
\v 21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.


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\v 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
\v 2 Many will follow their immoral\f + \fr 2:2 \ft TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral”\f* ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
\v 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
\v 4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus,\f + \fr 2:4 \ft Tartarus is another name for Hell\f* and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
\v 5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
\v 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
\v 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
\v 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
\v 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
\v 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
\v 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
\v 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
\v 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
\v 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
\v 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
\v 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
\v 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
\v 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
\v 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
\p
\v 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
\v 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
\v 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,”\x + \xo 2:22 \xt Proverbs 26:11\x* and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”


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\v 1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,
\v 2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
\v 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
\v 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
\v 5 For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
\v 6 by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
\v 7 But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
\p
\v 8 But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
\v 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
\v 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
\v 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
\v 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
\v 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
\p
\v 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
\v 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
\v 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
\v 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
\v 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.


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\v 1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
\v 2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
\v 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
\v 4 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
\p
\v 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
\v 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
\v 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
\v 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
\v 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
\v 10 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.


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\v 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor\f + \fr 2:1 \ft Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.\f* with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
\v 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice\f + \fr 2:2 \ft “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. \f* for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
\v 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
\v 4 One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
\v 5 But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
\v 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
\p
\v 7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
\v 8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
\v 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
\v 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
\v 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
\p
\v 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
\p
\v 13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
\p I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
\p I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
\p
\v 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.
\p I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
\p
\v 15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
\v 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
\v 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
\p
\v 18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
\v 19 They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
\v 20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. \f + \fr 2:20 \ft Or, “know what is true”, or, “know all things”\f*
\v 21 I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
\v 22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
\v 23 Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
\p
\v 24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
\v 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
\v 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
\v 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
\v 28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
\v 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.


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\v 1 See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
\v 2 Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
\v 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
\v 4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
\v 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
\v 6 Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
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\v 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
\v 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
\v 9 Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
\v 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
\v 11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
\v 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
\p
\v 13 Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
\v 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
\v 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
\p
\v 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
\v 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
\v 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
\v 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
\v 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
\v 21 Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
\v 22 so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
\v 23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
\v 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.


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\v 1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
\v 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
\v 3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
\v 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
\v 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
\v 6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
\p
\v 7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
\v 8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
\v 9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
\v 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice\f + \fr 4:10 \ft “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. \f* for our sins.
\v 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
\v 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
\p
\v 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
\v 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
\v 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
\v 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
\v 17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.
\v 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
\v 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
\v 20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
\v 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.


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\v 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
\v 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
\v 3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
\v 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
\v 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
\v 6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
\v 7 For there are three who testify:\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Only a few recent manuscripts add “in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth:”\f*
\v 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.
\v 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
\v 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
\v 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
\v 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
\p
\v 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
\p
\v 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
\v 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
\p
\v 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
\v 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
\p
\v 18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.
\v 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
\v 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
\p
\v 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.


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\v 1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,
\v 2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
\v 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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\v 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
\v 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
\v 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
\v 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
\v 8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
\v 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
\v 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
\v 11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.
\p
\v 12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
\v 13 The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.


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\v 1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
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\v 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
\v 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
\v 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
\p
\v 5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
\v 6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
\v 7 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
\v 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
\p
\v 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
\v 10 Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
\v 11 Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
\v 12 Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
\p
\v 13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;
\v 14 but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.


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\v 1 Jude,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft or, Judah\f* a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
\v 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
\p
\v 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
\v 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
\p
\v 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
\v 6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
\v 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
\v 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
\v 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
\v 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
\v 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
\v 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
\v 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
\v 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:14 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
\v 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
\v 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
\p
\v 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
\v 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
\v 19 These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
\v 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
\v 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
\v 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction,
\v 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
\p
\v 24 Now to him who is able to keep them\f + \fr 1:24 \ft TR and NU read “you”\f* from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
\v 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.


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\v 1 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel\f + \fr 1:1 \ft or, messenger (here and wherever angel is mentioned)\f* to his servant, John,
\v 2 who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.
\p
\v 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
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\v 4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
\v 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
\v 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests\x + \xo 1:6 \xt Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6 \x* to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\v 7 Behold,\f + \fr 1:7 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
\p
\v 8 \wj “I am the Alpha and the Omega,\wj*\f + \fr 1:8 \ft TR adds “the Beginning and the End”\f*\wj ”\wj* says the Lord God,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft TR omits “God”\f* \wj “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
\v 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
\v 11 saying, \f + \fr 1:11 \ft TR adds “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last.”\f*\wj “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies:\wj*\f + \fr 1:11 \ft TR adds “which are in Asia”\f* \wj to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”\wj*
\p
\v 12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.
\v 13 And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man,\x + \xo 1:13 \xt Daniel 7:13 \x* clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
\v 14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
\v 15 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
\v 16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
\v 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.
\p He laid his right hand on me, saying, \wj “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, \wj*
\v 18 \wj and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.\wj*\f + \fr 1:18 \ft or, Hell\f*
\v 19 \wj Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter. \wj*
\v 20 \wj The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels\wj*\f + \fr 1:20 \ft or, messengers (here and wherever angels are mentioned)\f* \wj of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.\wj*


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\v 1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
\v 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
\v 3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
\v 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”
\p
\v 5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,
\v 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
\v 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.
\v 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
\p
\v 9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book.
\p He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
\p
\v 10 I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
\v 11 They\f + \fr 10:11 \ft TR reads “He” instead of “They”\f* told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/11/100000001
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\c 11
\p
\v 1 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
\v 2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
\v 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
\v 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.
\v 5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
\v 6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
\v 7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
\v 8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
\v 9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
\v 10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
\v 11 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
\v 12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
\v 13 In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
\v 14 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
\p
\v 15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
\p
\v 16 The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
\v 17 saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was;\f + \fr 11:17 \ft TR adds “and who is coming”\f* because you have taken your great power and reigned.
\v 18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
\p
\v 19 God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/12/100000001
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\c 12
\p
\v 1 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
\v 2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
\v 3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
\v 4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
\v 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
\v 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
\p
\v 7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
\v 8 They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
\v 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
\v 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
\v 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
\v 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
\p
\v 13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
\v 14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
\v 15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
\v 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
\v 17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring,\f + \fr 12:17 \ft or, seed\f* who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/13/100000001
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\c 13
\p
\v 1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
\v 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
\v 3 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
\v 4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
\v 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
\v 6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
\v 7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
\v 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
\v 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
\v 10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed.\f + \fr 13:10 \ft TR reads “If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword.” instead of “If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed.” \f* Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
\p
\v 11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
\v 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
\v 13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
\v 14 He deceives my own\f + \fr 13:14 \ft NU omits “my own”\f* people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
\v 15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
\v 16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
\v 17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
\v 18 Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/14/100000001
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\c 14
\p
\v 1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
\v 2 I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
\v 3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
\v 4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
\v 5 In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.\f + \fr 14:5 \ft TR adds “before the throne of God”\f*
\p
\v 6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
\v 7 He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
\p
\v 8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
\p
\v 9 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,
\v 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
\v 11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
\v 12 Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
\p
\v 13 I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’”
\p “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
\p
\v 14 I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man,\x + \xo 14:14 \xt Daniel 7:13\x* having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
\v 15 Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!”
\v 16 He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
\p
\v 17 Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
\v 18 Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!”
\v 19 The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.
\v 20 The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.\f + \fr 14:20 \ft 1600 stadia = 296 kilometers or 184 miles\f*


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/15/100000001
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\c 15
\p
\v 1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
\v 2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image,\f + \fr 15:2 \ft TR adds “his mark,”\f* and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
\v 3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
\q1 “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty!
\q2 Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
\q1
\v 4 Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord,
\q2 and glorify your name?
\q1 For you only are holy.
\q2 For all the nations will come and worship before you.
\q2 For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
\p
\v 5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
\v 6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
\p
\v 7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
\v 8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/16/100000001
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\c 16
\p
\v 1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
\p
\v 2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
\p
\v 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
\p
\v 4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
\v 5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.
\v 6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
\v 7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
\p
\v 8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
\v 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
\p
\v 10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
\v 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.
\p
\v 12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
\v 13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;
\v 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
\p
\v 15 \wj “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.” \wj*
\v 16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, “Megiddo”.
\p
\v 17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
\v 18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty.
\v 19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
\v 20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
\v 21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent,\f + \fr 16:21 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/17/100000001
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\c 17
\p
\v 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
\v 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
\v 3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
\v 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
\v 5 And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
\v 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
\v 7 The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
\v 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.\f + \fr 17:8 \ft TR reads “yet is” instead of “shall be present”\f*
\v 9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
\v 10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
\v 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
\v 12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
\v 13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
\v 14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
\v 15 He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
\v 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
\v 17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
\v 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/18/100000001
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\c 18
\p
\v 1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
\v 2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
\v 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”
\p
\v 4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
\v 5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
\v 6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
\v 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
\v 8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
\v 9 The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
\v 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’
\v 11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more:
\v 12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
\v 13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
\v 14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
\v 15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,
\v 16 saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
\v 17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
\v 18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
\v 19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.
\p
\v 20 “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
\v 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
\v 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
\v 23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
\v 24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/66/19/100000001
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\c 19
\p
\v 1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;
\v 2 for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
\p
\v 3 A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
\v 4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”
\p
\v 5 A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”
\p
\v 6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
\v 7 Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
\v 8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
\p
\v 9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”
\p
\v 10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
\p
\v 11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
\v 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
\v 13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
\v 14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
\v 15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod.\x + \xo 19:15 \xt Psalm 2:9 \x* He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
\v 16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
\p
\v 17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,\f + \fr 19:17 \ft TR reads “supper of the great God” instead of “great supper of God”\f*
\v 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”
\v 19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
\v 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
\v 21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:\wj*
\p \wj “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:\wj*
\p
\v 2 \wj “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. \wj*
\v 3 \wj You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have \wj*\f + \fr 2:3 \ft TR adds “have labored and”\f* \wj not grown weary. \wj*
\v 4 \wj But I have this against you, that you left your first love. \wj*
\v 5 \wj Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent. \wj*
\v 6 \wj But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. \wj*
\v 7 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.\wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write:\wj*
\p \wj “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:\wj*
\p
\v 9 \wj “I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. \wj*
\v 11 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.\wj*
\p
\v 12 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write:\wj*
\p \wj “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:\wj*
\p
\v 13 \wj “I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. \wj*
\v 14 \wj But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. \wj*
\v 15 \wj So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.\wj*\f + \fr 2:15 \ft TR reads “which I hate” instead of “likewise”\f*
\v 16 \wj Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. \wj*
\v 17 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, \wj*\f + \fr 2:17 \ft Manna is supernatural food, named after the Hebrew for “What is it?”. See Exodus 11:7-9.\f* \wj and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.\wj*
\p
\v 18 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write:\wj*
\p \wj “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:\wj*
\p
\v 19 \wj “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. \wj*
\v 20 \wj But I have this against you, that you tolerate your\wj*\f + \fr 2:20 \ft TR, NU read “that” instead of “your”\f* \wj woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. \wj*
\v 21 \wj I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. \wj*
\v 22 \wj Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works. \wj*
\v 23 \wj I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. \wj*
\v 24 \wj But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. \wj*
\v 25 \wj Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come. \wj*
\v 26 \wj He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. \wj*
\v 27 \wj He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots;\wj*\x + \xo 2:27 \xt Psalm 2:9\x* \wj as I also have received of my Father: \wj*
\v 28 \wj and I will give him the morning star. \wj*
\v 29 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\wj*


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\v 1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
\v 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
\v 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
\v 4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
\v 5 The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
\v 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
\p
\v 7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
\v 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
\v 9 They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.
\v 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
\p
\v 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
\v 12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
\v 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades\f + \fr 20:13 \ft or, Hell \f* gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.
\v 14 Death and Hades\f + \fr 20:14 \ft or, Hell\f* were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
\v 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.


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\v 1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
\v 2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
\v 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
\v 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
\p
\v 5 He who sits on the throne said, \wj “Behold, I am making all things new.”\wj* He said, \wj “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” \wj*
\v 6 He said to me, \wj “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.\wj*\f + \fr 21:6 \ft TR and NU read \fqa “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.\f* \wj I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. \wj*
\v 7 \wj He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. \wj*
\v 8 \wj But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,\wj*\f + \fr 21:8 \ft The word for “sorcerers” here also includes users of potions and drugs.\f* \wj idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”\wj*
\p
\v 9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”
\v 10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
\v 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
\v 12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
\v 13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
\v 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
\v 15 He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
\v 16 The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia.\f + \fr 21:16 \ft 12,012 stadia = or 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia.\f* Its length, width, and height are equal.
\v 17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits,\f + \fr 21:17 \ft 144 cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet\f* by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
\v 18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
\v 19 The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire;\f + \fr 21:19 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f* the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
\v 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.
\v 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
\v 22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
\v 23 The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
\v 24 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
\v 25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
\v 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
\v 27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.


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\v 1 He showed me a\f + \fr 22:1 \ft TR adds “pure”\f* river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
\v 2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
\v 3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.
\v 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
\v 5 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
\p
\v 6 He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”
\p
\v 7 \wj “Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”\wj*
\p
\v 8 Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
\v 9 He said to me, “See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
\v 10 He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
\v 11 He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
\p
\v 12 \wj “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. \wj*
\v 13 \wj I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. \wj*
\v 14 \wj Blessed are those who do his commandments,\wj*\f + \fr 22:14 \ft NU reads “wash their robes” instead of “do his commandments”.\f* \wj that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. \wj*
\v 15 \wj Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. \wj*
\v 16 \wj I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”\wj*
\p
\v 17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
\v 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
\v 19 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree\f + \fr 22:19 \ft TR reads “Book” instead of “tree”\f* of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
\v 20 He who testifies these things says, \wj “Yes, I come quickly.” \wj*
\p Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
\p
\v 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.


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\v 1 \wj “And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write:\wj*
\p \wj “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things:\wj*
\p \wj “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. \wj*
\v 2 \wj Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. \wj*
\v 3 \wj Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you. \wj*
\v 4 \wj Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. \wj*
\v 5 \wj He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. \wj*
\v 6 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\wj*
\p
\v 7 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write:\wj*
\p \wj “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: \wj*
\p
\v 8 \wj “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name. \wj*
\v 9 \wj Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. \wj*
\v 10 \wj Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. \wj*
\v 11 \wj I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. \wj*
\v 12 \wj He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. \wj*
\v 13 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\wj*
\p
\v 14 \wj “To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write:\wj*
\p \wj “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning\wj*\f + \fr 3:14 \ft or, Source, or Head\f* \wj of God’s creation, says these things:\wj*
\p
\v 15 \wj “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. \wj*
\v 16 \wj So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. \wj*
\v 17 \wj Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; \wj*
\v 18 \wj I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. \wj*
\v 19 \wj As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. \wj*
\v 20 \wj Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me. \wj*
\v 21 \wj He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne. \wj*
\v 22 \wj He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”\wj*


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\v 1 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”
\p
\v 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
\v 3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
\v 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
\v 5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
\v 6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
\v 7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
\v 8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy\f + \fr 4:8 \ft Hodges/Farstad MT reads “holy” 9 times instead of 3.\f* is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
\p
\v 9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
\v 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
\v 11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,\f + \fr 4:11 \ft TR omits “and God, the Holy One,”\f* to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”


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\v 1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
\v 2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
\v 3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
\v 4 Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
\v 5 One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
\v 6 I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
\v 7 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
\v 8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
\v 9 They sang a new song, saying,
\q1 “You are worthy to take the book
\q2 and to open its seals:
\q1 for you were killed,
\q2 and bought us for God with your blood
\q2 out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
\q1
\v 10 and made us kings and priests to our God,
\q2 and we will reign on the earth.”
\p
\v 11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
\v 12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
\p
\v 13 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”\f + \fr 5:13 \ft TR omits “Amen!”\f*
\p
\v 14 The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the\f + \fr 5:14 \ft TR adds “twenty-four”\f* elders fell down and worshiped.\f + \fr 5:14 \ft TR adds “the one living forever and ever”\f*


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\v 1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”
\v 2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
\p
\v 3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”
\v 4 Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.
\p
\v 5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.
\v 6 I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix \f + \fr 6:6 \ft A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (a little more than a quart).\f* of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”
\p
\v 7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see!”
\v 8 And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades \f + \fr 6:8 \ft or, Hell\f* followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
\p
\v 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
\v 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
\v 11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, \f + \fr 6:11 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
\p
\v 12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
\v 13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
\v 14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
\v 15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
\v 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
\v 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”


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\v 1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
\v 2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,
\v 3 saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”
\v 4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
\q1
\v 5 of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed,
\q1 of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,
\q1
\v 6 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,
\q1
\v 7 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,
\q1
\v 8 of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand,
\q1 of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, and
\q1 of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
\p
\v 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
\v 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
\p
\v 11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,
\v 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
\p
\v 13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”
\p
\v 14 I told him, “My lord, you know.”
\p He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.\f + \fr 7:14 \ft or, oppression\f*They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
\v 15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
\v 16 They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
\v 17 for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”


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\v 1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
\v 2 I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
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\v 3 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
\v 4 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
\v 5 The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth. Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake followed.
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\v 6 The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
\v 7 The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, \f + \fr 8:7 \ft TR omits “One third of the earth was burned up”\f* and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
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\v 8 The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,
\v 9 and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.
\p
\v 10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.
\v 11 The name of the star is called “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
\p
\v 12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
\v 13 I saw, and I heard an eagle,\f + \fr 8:13 \ft TR reads “angel” instead of “eagle” \f* flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”


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\v 1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
\v 2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a\f + \fr 9:2 \ft TR adds “great”\f* burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
\v 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
\v 4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
\v 5 They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
\v 6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
\v 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.
\v 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
\v 9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
\v 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
\v 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”,\f + \fr 9:11 \ft “Abaddon” is a Hebrew word that means “ruin”, “destruction”, or “the place of destruction”\f* but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”. \f + \fr 9:11 \ft “Apollyon” means “Destroyer”.\f*
\v 12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
\p
\v 13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
\v 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
\p
\v 15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
\v 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million.\f + \fr 9:16 \ft literally, “ten thousands of ten thousands”\f* I heard the number of them.
\v 17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
\v 18 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
\v 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
\v 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.
\v 21 They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries,\f + \fr 9:21 \ft The word for “sorceries” (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs\f* their sexual immorality, or their thefts.


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\id FRT Preface to the World English Bible
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\mt1 Preface to the World English Bible
\is1 What is the Holy Bible?
\ip The Holy Bible is a collection of books and letters written by many people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. These books tell us how we can be saved from the evil of this world and gain eternal life that is truly worth living. Although the Holy Bible contains rules of conduct, it is not just a rule book. It reveals God’s heart—a Father’s heart, full of love and compassion. The Holy Bible tells you what you need to know and believe to be saved from sin and evil and how to live a life that is truly worth living, no matter what your current circumstances may be.
\ip The Holy Bible consists of two main sections: the Old Testament (including Psalms and Proverbs) and the New Testament (Matthew through Revelation). The Old Testament records God’s interaction with mankind before He sent His son to redeem us, while recording prophesy predicting that coming. The New Testament tells us of God’s Son and Anointed One, Jesus, and the wonderful salvation that He purchased for us.
\ip The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more than happy to help you apply His message to your life.
\ip The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written mostly in the common street Greek (not the formal Greek used for official legal matters). The Holy Bible is translated into many languages, and being translated into many more, so that everyone may have an opportunity to hear the Good News about Jesus Christ.
\is1 Why was the World English Bible translated?
\ip There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English. Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This restricts publication and republication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet, use of extensive quotations in books, etc. The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject.
\ip Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don’t even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the whole World English Bible in book form, bind it in leather and sell it. You may incorporate it into your Bible study software. You may make and distribute audio recordings of it. You may broadcast it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God’s Word before God, and reserve the name “World English Bible” for faithful copies of this translation.
\is1 How was the World English Bible translated?
\ip The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. A custom computer program updated the archaic words and word forms to contemporary equivalents, and then a team of volunteers proofread and updated the grammar. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated.
\is1 What is different about the World English Bible?
\ip The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The World English Bible is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. It is not formal in its language, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.
\ip The World English Bible doesn’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. Hebrew has no such thing as upper and lower case, and the original Greek manuscripts were written in all upper case letters. Attempting to add in such a distinction raises some difficulties in translating dual-meaning Scriptures such as the coronation psalms.
\ip The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.” The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.
\ip Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:
\ili The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.
\ili Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.
\ili Romans 14:24-26 in the WEB may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.
\ili 1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.
\ip With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible doesn’t differ very much from several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.
\is1 Does the World English Bible include the Apocrypha?
\ip The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.
\ip The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: \bk Tobit\bk*, \bk Judith\bk*, \bk Esther from the Greek Septuagint\bk*, \bk The Wisdom of Solomon\bk*, \bk Ecclesiasticus\bk* (also called \bk The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach\bk*), \bk Baruch\bk*, \bk The Song of the Three Holy Children\bk*, \bk Susanna\bk*, and \bk Bel and the Dragon\bk*, \bk 1 Maccabees\bk*, \bk 2 Maccabees\bk*. In this edition, \bk The Letter of Jeremiah\bk* is included as chapter 6 of \bk Baruch\bk*. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: \bk The Song of the Three Holy Children\bk*, \bk Susanna\bk*, and \bk Bel and the Dragon\bk*. These 11 books, plus the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments comprise the 88 books in the Roman Catholic Bible.
\ip The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.
\ip The Slavonic Bible includes 2 Esdras, but calls it 3 Esdras. This same book is in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate as 4 Esdras.
\ip An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.
\ip Among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, opinions vary widely on the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, as do the collective names they give them. Many regard them as useful in gaining additional understanding of the Old and New Testaments and the hand of God in history, even if they don’t give them the same status as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. They are included here in support of the churches and individuals who read them and use them, as separate from, but frequently used with, the core canon of the 66 books of the Holy Bible.
\is1 What are MT, TR, and NU?
\ip In the footnotes, MT refers to the Greek Majority Text New Testament, which is the authoritative basis for this translation. TR stands for Textus Receptus, which is the Greek Text from which the King James Version New Testament was translated. NU stands for the Nestle-Aland/UBS critical text of the Greek New Testament, which is used as a basis for some other Bible translations.
\is1 More Information
\ip For answers to frequently asked questions about the World English Bible, please visit WorldEnglishBible.org.


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\v 1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, \f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
\p
\v 2 Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have delivered the land into his hand.”
\p
\v 3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.
\v 4 Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
\v 5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
\v 6 But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
\v 7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
\v 8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
\p
\v 9 After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
\v 10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
\p
\v 11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)
\v 12 Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
\v 13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
\p
\v 14 When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
\p
\v 15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
\v 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
\v 17 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
\v 18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
\v 19 Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
\v 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.
\v 21 The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
\p
\v 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.
\v 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
\v 24 The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
\v 25 He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.
\v 26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
\p
\v 27 Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
\v 28 When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
\v 29 Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
\v 30 Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
\v 31 Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
\v 32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.
\v 33 Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
\v 34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
\v 35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
\v 36 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.


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\v 1 After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
\v 2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
\p
\v 3 After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
\v 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
\v 5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
\p
\v 6 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
\v 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
\v 8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
\v 9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
\v 10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
\v 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
\v 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
\v 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
\p
\v 15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
\v 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
\p
\v 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
\v 18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”


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\v 1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
\v 2 Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
\v 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
\p
\v 4 After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
\v 5 When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
\v 6 They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
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\v 7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
\p
\v 8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
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\v 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
\p
\v 10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
\p
\v 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
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\v 12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
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\v 13 The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
\p
\v 14 Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
\v 15 and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
\v 16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
\v 17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
\v 18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
\v 19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
\v 20 But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
\v 21 Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
\v 22 They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
\v 23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
\v 24 Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
\v 25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
\v 26 Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
\v 27 Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
\p
\v 28 However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
\v 29 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
\p
\v 30 Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
\v 31 then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
\p
\v 32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
\v 33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
\p
\v 34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
\v 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
\p
\v 36 She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”
\v 37 Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
\p
\v 38 He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
\v 39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
\v 40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.


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\p
\v 1 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”
\p
\v 2 Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.
\v 3 When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”
\p
\v 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”
\v 5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”
\v 6 then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
\p
\v 7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
\p
\v 8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
\v 9 He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside his clan for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
\v 10 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
\p
\v 11 After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
\v 12 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
\p
\v 13 After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
\v 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
\v 15 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.


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\p
\v 1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
\p
\v 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
\v 3 Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
\v 4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
\v 5 for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
\p
\v 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
\v 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
\p
\v 8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”
\p
\v 9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
\v 10 The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”
\p
\v 11 Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”
\p He said, “I am.”
\p
\v 12 Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
\v 14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
\p
\v 15 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
\p
\v 17 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”
\p
\v 18 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible\f + \fr 13:18 \ft or, wonderful\f*?”
\p
\v 19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
\v 20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
\v 21 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.
\v 22 Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
\p
\v 23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
\v 24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
\v 25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.


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\p
\v 1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
\v 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
\p
\v 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”
\p Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
\p
\v 4 But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
\p
\v 5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
\v 6 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
\v 7 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
\v 8 After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
\v 9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
\v 10 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
\v 11 When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
\p
\v 12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
\v 13 but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.”
\p They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
\p
\v 14 He said to them,
\q1 “Out of the eater came out food.
\q2 Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
\p They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
\v 15 On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
\p
\v 16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”
\p He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
\p
\v 17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
\v 18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?”
\p He said to them,
\q1 “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
\q2 you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
\p
\v 19 Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
\v 20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.


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\p
\v 1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.”
\p But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
\v 2 Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
\p
\v 3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
\v 4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
\v 5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
\p
\v 6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
\p They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
\p
\v 7 Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
\v 8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
\v 9 Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
\p
\v 10 The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
\p They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
\p
\v 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
\p He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
\p
\v 12 They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”
\p Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
\p
\v 13 They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
\p
\v 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
\v 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
\v 16 Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
\v 17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.\f + \fr 15:17 \ft “Ramath” means “hill” and “Lehi” means “jawbone”.\f*
\p
\v 18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
\p
\v 19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
\v 20 He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.


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\p
\v 1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
\v 2 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”
\v 3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
\p
\v 4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
\v 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
\p
\v 6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
\p
\v 7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
\p
\v 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
\v 9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
\p
\v 10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
\p
\v 11 He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
\p
\v 12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
\p
\v 13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”
\p He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
\p
\v 14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
\p
\v 15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
\p
\v 16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
\v 17 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
\p
\v 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
\v 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
\v 20 She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!”
\p He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
\v 21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
\v 22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
\p
\v 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
\v 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
\p
\v 25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
\v 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
\v 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
\v 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
\v 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
\v 30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
\p
\v 31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.


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\p
\v 1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
\v 2 He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.”
\p His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”
\p
\v 3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
\p
\v 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
\p
\v 5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim,\f + \fr 17:5 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
\v 6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
\v 7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
\v 8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
\v 9 Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?”
\p He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
\p
\v 10 Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
\v 11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
\v 12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
\v 13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
\v 2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!”
\p They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
\v 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
\p
\v 4 He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
\p
\v 5 They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
\p
\v 6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
\p
\v 7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.
\v 8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
\p
\v 9 They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
\v 10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
\p
\v 11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
\v 12 They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
\v 13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
\p
\v 14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim,\f + \fr 18:14 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
\v 15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
\v 16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
\v 17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
\p
\v 18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
\p
\v 19 They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
\p
\v 20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
\v 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
\v 22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
\v 23 As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”
\p
\v 24 He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”
\p
\v 25 The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”
\p
\v 26 The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
\v 27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
\v 28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.
\v 29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
\v 30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
\v 31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.


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\p
\v 1 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
\v 2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.
\v 3 Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
\v 4 His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.
\p
\v 5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”
\v 6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
\v 7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.
\v 8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both ate.
\p
\v 9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
\v 10 But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.
\p
\v 11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it.”
\p
\v 12 His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”
\v 13 He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”
\v 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
\v 15 They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.
\p
\v 16 Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
\v 17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
\p
\v 18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.
\v 19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”
\p
\v 20 The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
\v 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
\v 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
\p
\v 23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
\v 24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”
\p
\v 25 But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.
\v 26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.
\v 27 Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
\p
\v 28 He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.
\p
\v 29 When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
\v 30 It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”


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\v 1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
\v 2 You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
\v 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
\p
\v 4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
\v 5 They called the name of that place Bochim,\f + \fr 2:5 \ft “Bochim” means “weepers”.\f* and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
\v 6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
\v 7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
\v 8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
\v 9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
\v 10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
\v 11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
\v 12 They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
\v 13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
\v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
\v 15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
\v 16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
\v 17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
\v 18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
\v 19 But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
\v 20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
\v 21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
\v 22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
\v 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.


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\v 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
\v 2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
\v 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
\p
\v 4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
\v 5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
\v 6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
\v 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
\p
\v 8 All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
\v 9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
\v 10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
\v 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
\p
\v 12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you?
\v 13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.”
\p But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
\v 14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
\v 15 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.
\v 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
\v 17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
\p
\v 18 The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?”
\p Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
\p
\v 19 The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
\v 20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
\v 21 The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
\v 22 The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
\v 23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”
\p Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
\p
\v 24 The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
\v 25 Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
\p
\v 26 Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
\v 27 The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
\v 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”
\p Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
\p
\v 29 Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
\v 30 The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
\v 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
\p
\v 32 The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
\p
\v 33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
\v 34 Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
\v 35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.
\v 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
\v 37 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
\v 38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
\v 39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
\v 40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.
\v 41 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
\v 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.
\v 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
\v 44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
\v 45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
\v 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
\v 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
\v 48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.


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\v 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”
\v 2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
\v 3 They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
\p
\v 4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
\v 5 The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”
\v 6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
\v 7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
\v 8 They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
\v 9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
\v 10 The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
\v 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
\v 12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
\p
\v 13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
\v 14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
\v 15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
\v 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
\v 17 They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
\v 18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”
\v 19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
\v 20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
\v 21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
\v 22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
\p
\v 23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
\v 24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
\v 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.


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\v 1 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
\v 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
\v 3 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
\v 4 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
\v 5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
\v 6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
\v 7 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
\v 8 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
\v 9 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
\v 10 Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
\v 11 The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
\p
\v 12 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 13 He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
\v 14 The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
\v 15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
\v 16 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit\f + \fr 3:16 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.
\v 17 He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
\v 18 When Ehud had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
\v 19 But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.”
\p The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.
\p
\v 20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.
\v 21 Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.
\v 22 The handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
\v 23 Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
\p
\v 24 After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet\f + \fr 3:24 \ft or, “relieving himself”.\f* in the upper room.”
\v 25 They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
\p
\v 26 Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.
\v 27 When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.
\p
\v 28 He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.
\v 29 They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.
\v 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.
\p
\v 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.


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\v 1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
\v 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
\v 3 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
\v 4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
\v 5 She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
\v 6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
\v 7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
\p
\v 8 Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
\p
\v 9 She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
\p
\v 10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.
\v 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
\v 12 They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.
\v 13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
\p
\v 14 Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
\v 15 Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.
\v 16 But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.
\p
\v 17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
\v 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
\p
\v 19 He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.”
\p She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.
\p
\v 20 He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”
\p
\v 21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep; so he fainted and died.
\v 22 Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
\v 23 So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
\v 24 The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.


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\v 1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
\q1
\v 2 “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,
\q2 because the people offered themselves willingly,
\q1 be blessed, Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Hear, you kings!
\q2 Give ear, you princes!
\q1 I, even I, will sing to Yahweh.
\q2 I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,
\q2 when you marched out of the field of Edom,
\q1 the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
\q2 Yes, the clouds dropped water.
\q1
\v 5 The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence,
\q2 even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
\q2 in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
\q2 The travelers walked through byways.
\q1
\v 7 The rulers ceased in Israel.
\q2 They ceased until I, Deborah, arose;
\q2 Until I arose a mother in Israel.
\q1
\v 8 They chose new gods.
\q2 Then war was in the gates.
\q2 Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
\q1
\v 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
\q2 who offered themselves willingly among the people.
\q2 Bless Yahweh!
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,
\q2 you who sit on rich carpets,
\q2 and you who walk by the way.
\q1
\v 11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water,
\q2 there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts,
\q2 the righteous acts of his rule in Israel.
\b
\q1 “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
\q2
\v 12 ‘Awake, awake, Deborah!
\q2 Awake, awake, utter a song!
\q2 Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
\b
\q1
\v 13 “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down.
\q2 Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
\q1
\v 14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim,
\q2 after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.
\q1 Governors come down out of Machir.
\q2 Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
\q1
\v 15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah.
\q2 As was Issachar, so was Barak.
\q2 They rushed into the valley at his feet.
\q1 By the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great resolves of heart.
\q1
\v 16 Why did you sit among the sheepfolds?
\q2 To hear the whistling for the flocks?
\q1 At the watercourses of Reuben,
\q2 there were great searchings of heart.
\q1
\v 17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
\q2 Why did Dan remain in ships?
\q2 Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
\q2 and lived by his creeks.
\q1
\v 18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death;
\q2 Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “The kings came and fought,
\q2 then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.
\q2 They took no plunder of silver.
\q1
\v 20 From the sky the stars fought.
\q2 From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
\q1
\v 21 The river Kishon swept them away,
\q2 that ancient river, the river Kishon.
\q2 My soul, march on with strength.
\q1
\v 22 Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing,
\q2 the prancing of their strong ones.
\q1
\v 23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel.
\q2 ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
\q2 because they didn’t come to help Yahweh,
\q2 to help Yahweh against the mighty.’
\b
\q1
\v 24 “Jael shall be blessed above women,
\q2 the wife of Heber the Kenite;
\q2 blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
\q1
\v 25 He asked for water.
\q2 She gave him milk.
\q2 She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
\q1
\v 26 She put her hand to the tent peg,
\q2 and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.
\q1 With the hammer she struck Sisera.
\q2 She struck through his head.
\q2 Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
\q1
\v 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
\q2 At her feet he bowed, he fell.
\q2 Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
\b
\q1
\v 28 “Through the window she looked out, and cried:
\q2 Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
\q1 ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
\q2 Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
\q1
\v 29 Her wise ladies answered her,
\q2 Yes, she returned answer to herself,
\q1
\v 30 ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder?
\q2 A lady, two ladies to every man;
\q1 to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments,
\q2 a plunder of dyed garments embroidered,
\q2 of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’
\b
\q1
\v 31 “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh,
\q2 but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.”
\b
\p Then the land had rest forty years.


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\p
\v 1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
\v 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.
\v 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
\v 4 They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.
\v 5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
\v 6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
\v 8 Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage.
\v 9 I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land.
\v 10 I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
\v 12 Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
\p
\v 13 Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”
\p
\v 15 He said to him, “O Lord,\f + \fr 6:15 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
\p
\v 17 He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
\v 18 Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.”
\p He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
\p
\v 19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah \f + \fr 6:19 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
\p
\v 20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.”
\p He did so.
\v 21 Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
\p
\v 22 Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
\p
\v 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”\f + \fr 6:24 \ft or, Yahweh Shalom\f* To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
\p
\v 25 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.
\v 26 Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
\p
\v 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.
\p
\v 28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
\v 29 They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?”
\p When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
\p
\v 30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”
\v 31 Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”
\v 32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal,\f + \fr 6:32 \ft “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend”.\f* saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”
\p
\v 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
\v 34 But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.
\v 35 He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also were gathered together to follow him. He sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
\p
\v 36 Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
\v 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
\p
\v 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
\p
\v 39 Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
\p
\v 40 God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.


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\p
\v 1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
\v 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
\v 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
\v 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
\v 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
\v 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
\p
\v 8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
\v 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
\v 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
\v 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
\p
\v 12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
\p
\v 13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
\p
\v 14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
\p
\v 15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
\p
\v 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
\p
\v 17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
\v 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
\p
\v 19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
\v 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
\v 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
\v 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
\v 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
\v 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
\v 25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.


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\p
\v 1 The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
\v 2 He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
\v 3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
\p
\v 4 Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
\v 5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
\p
\v 6 The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
\p
\v 7 Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
\p
\v 8 He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
\v 9 He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
\p
\v 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
\v 11 Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army felt secure.
\v 12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
\v 13 Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
\v 14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
\v 15 He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”
\v 16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
\v 17 He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
\p
\v 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?”
\p They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
\p
\v 19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”
\p
\v 20 He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
\p
\v 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.
\p
\v 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
\p
\v 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
\v 24 Gideon said to them, “I do have a request: that you would each give me the earrings of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
\p
\v 25 They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
\v 26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels\f + \fr 8:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 1700 shekels is about 17 kilograms or 37.4 pounds.\f* of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
\v 27 Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
\v 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
\p
\v 29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
\v 30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
\v 31 His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
\v 32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
\p
\v 33 As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
\v 34 The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
\v 35 neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.


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\p
\v 1 Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
\v 2 “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
\p
\v 3 His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”
\v 4 They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.
\v 5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
\v 6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
\v 7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
\v 8 The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
\p
\v 9 “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\v 10 “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\v 11 “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\v 12 “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\v 13 “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
\p
\v 14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’
\p
\v 15 “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
\p
\v 16 “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
\v 17 (for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
\v 18 and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
\v 19 if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
\v 20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
\p
\v 21 Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer\f + \fr 9:21 \ft “Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, i.e., a village named for its well.\f* and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
\p
\v 22 Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
\v 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
\v 24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
\v 25 The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.
\p
\v 26 Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
\v 27 They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
\v 28 Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?
\v 29 I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”
\p
\v 30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.
\v 31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.
\v 32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
\v 33 It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”
\p
\v 34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
\v 35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.
\p
\v 36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.”
\p Zebul said to him, “You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.”
\p
\v 37 Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”
\p
\v 38 Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”
\p
\v 39 Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
\v 40 Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
\v 41 Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
\v 42 On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
\v 43 He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.
\v 44 Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.
\v 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.
\p
\v 46 When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
\v 47 Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
\v 48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
\v 49 All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
\v 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
\v 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
\v 52 Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
\v 53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
\p
\v 54 Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
\p
\v 55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
\v 56 Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;
\v 57 and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.


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\toc2 Tobit
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\ip \bk Tobit\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.


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\v 1 The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;
\v 2 who in the days of Enemessar\f + \fr 1:2 \ft That is, \fqa Shalmaneser. \ft Compare 2 Kings 17:3, 23. \f* king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.
\p
\v 3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
\v 4 When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.
\v 5 All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father.
\v 6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.
\v 7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.
\v 8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
\v 9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
\v 10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;
\v 11 but I kept myself from eating,
\v 12 because I remembered God with all my soul.
\v 13 So the Most High gave me grace and favor\f + \fr 1:13 \ft Gr. \fqa beauty. \f* in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent.
\v 14 And I went into Media, and left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages of Media.
\p
\v 15 And when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place. In his time, the highways were troubled,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft Gr. \fqa his highways were troubled. \f* and I could no longer go into Media.
\v 16 In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,
\v 17 and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on\f + \fr 1:17 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa behind. \f* the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.
\v 18 If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found.
\v 19 But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.
\v 20 And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
\v 21 No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus\f + \fr 1:21 \ft That is, \fqa Esar-haddon, \ft and so in verse 22. \f* his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs.
\v 22 Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son.


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\v 1 Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,
\v 2 he said, “Is he perchance detained?\f + \fr 10:2 \ft Many ancient authorities read \fqa “Are they perchance put to shame?” \f* Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”
\v 3 He was very grieved.
\p
\v 4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,
\v 5 “I care about nothing,\f + \fr 10:5 \ft Some authorities read \fqa “Woe is me.”\f* my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”
\v 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”
\p
\v 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.
\p Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”
\v 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”
\v 9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.”
\p
\v 10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;
\v 11 and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”
\v 12 And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.
\p Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.


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\v 1 After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.
\v 2 Raphael said to Tobias, “Don’t you know, brother, how you left your father?
\v 3 Let’s run forward before your wife, and prepare the house.
\v 4 But take in your hand the bile of the fish.” So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
\p
\v 5 Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son.
\v 6 She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”
\p
\v 7 Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.
\v 8 Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”
\p
\v 9 Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.
\p
\v 10 Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him,
\v 11 and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”
\v 12 When his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them.
\v 13 Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.
\p
\v 14 He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!
\v 15 For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.
\p
\v 16 Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight.
\v 17 Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.
\v 18 Achiacharus and Nasbas his brother’s son came.
\v 19 Tobias’ wedding feast was kept seven days with great gladness.


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\v 1 And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”
\p
\v 2 And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;
\v 3 for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”
\p
\v 4 The old man said, “It is due to him.”
\p
\v 5 And he called the angel, and said to him, “Take half of all that you all have brought.”
\p
\v 6 Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honor the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.
\v 7 It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.
\v 8 Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.
\v 9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;
\v 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life.
\v 11 Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’
\v 12 And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.
\v 13 And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.
\v 14 And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law.
\v 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”
\p
\v 16 And they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they were afraid.
\v 17 And he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. You will all have peace; but bless God forever.
\v 18 For I came not of any favor of my own, but by the will of your God. Therefore bless him forever.
\v 19 All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.
\v 20 Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”
\v 21 Then they rose up, and saw him no more.
\v 22 They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.


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\v 1 And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said,
\q1 “Blessed is God who lives forever!
\q2 Blessed is his kingdom!
\q1
\v 2 For he scourges, and shows mercy.
\q2 He leads down to the grave,\f + \fr 13:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* and brings up again.
\q2 There is no one that will escape his hand.
\q1
\v 3 Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!
\q2 For he has scattered us among them.
\q1
\v 4 Declare his greatness, there.
\q2 Extol him before all the living;
\q1 because he is our Lord,
\q2 and God is our Father forever.
\q1
\v 5 He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy,
\q2 and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered.
\q1
\v 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,
\q2 to do truth before him,
\q1 then he will turn to you,
\q2 and won’t hide his face from you.
\q1 See what he will do with you.
\q2 Give him thanks with your whole mouth.
\q1 Bless the Lord of righteousness.
\q2 Exalt the everlasting King.
\q1 I give him thanks in the land of my captivity,
\q2 and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners.
\q1 Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him.
\q2 Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?
\q1
\v 7 I exalt my God.
\q2 My soul exalts the King of heaven,
\q2 and rejoices in his greatness.
\q1
\v 8 Let all men speak,
\q2 and let them give him thanks in Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 9 O Jerusalem, the holy city,
\q2 he will scourge you for the works of your sons,
\q2 and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.
\q1
\v 10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness,
\q2 and bless the everlasting King,
\q1 that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy,
\q2 and that he may make glad in you those who are captives,
\q2 and love in you forever those who are miserable.
\q1
\v 11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God
\q2 with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven.
\q1 Generations of generations will praise you,
\q2 and sing songs of rejoicing.
\q1
\v 12 All those who hate you are cursed.
\q2 All those who love you forever will be blessed.
\q1
\v 13 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous;
\q2 for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.
\q1
\v 14 Oh blessed are those who love you.
\q2 They will rejoice for your peace.
\q1 Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges;
\q2 because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory.
\q1 They will be made glad forever.
\q2
\v 15 Let my soul bless God the great King.
\q1
\v 16 For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;
\q2 your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.
\q1
\v 17 The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.
\q2
\v 18 All her streets will say, “Hallelujah!”
\q2 and give praise, saying, “Blessed be God, who has exalted you forever!”


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\v 1 Then Tobit finished giving thanks.
\v 2 He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.
\p
\v 3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.
\v 4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and will be desolate for a time.
\v 5 God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.
\v 6 And all the nations will turn to fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.
\v 7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.
\v 8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.
\v 9 But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.
\v 10 Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.
\v 11 And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
\p While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.
\v 12 When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,
\v 13 and he grew old in honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.
\v 14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.
\v 15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.


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\v 1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.
\v 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
\p
\v 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
\v 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
\v 5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
\v 6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,
\q1 \x + \xo 2:6 \xt Amos 8:10\x*“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,
\q2 and all your mirth into lamentation.
\p
\v 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
\v 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
\v 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
\v 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went\f + \fr 2:10 \ft Some authorities read \fqa until he went. \f* into Elymais.
\p
\v 11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
\v 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
\v 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
\v 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”
\p I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.
\p But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.\f + \fr 2:14 \ft Gr. \fqa all things are known with you. \f*”


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\v 1 I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,
\p
\v 2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever.
\v 3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you.
\v 4 For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
\v 5 Now your judgments are many and true; that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers; because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you.
\v 6 Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”
\p
\v 7 The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;
\v 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit\f + \fr 3:8 \ft Gr. \fqa demon. \f* killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.
\v 9 Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”
\v 10 When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, “I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.\f + \fr 3:10 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f*”
\v 11 Then she prayed by the window, and said, “Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever!
\v 12 And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face toward you.
\v 13 Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach.
\v 14 You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
\v 15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
\p
\v 16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
\v 17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit\f + \fr 3:17 \ft Gr. \fqa demon. \f*; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.


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\v 1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,
\v 2 and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?
\v 3 And he called him, and said,
\p “My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her.
\v 4 Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
\v 5 My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.
\v 6 For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness.
\v 7 Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.
\v 8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little;
\v 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;
\v 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.
\v 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it.
\v 12 Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land.
\v 13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.
\v 14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.
\v 15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.
\v 16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.
\v 17 Pour out your bread on the burial\f + \fr 4:17 \ft Or, \fqa tomb \f* of the just, and give nothing to sinners.
\v 18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.
\v 19 Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind.
\v 20 And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media.
\v 21 And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.”


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\v 1 Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.
\v 2 But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”
\p
\v 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”
\p
\v 4 He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel;
\v 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”
\p
\v 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”
\p
\v 7 Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I will tell my father.”
\p
\v 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”
\p But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”
\p
\v 9 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.
\v 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”
\p
\v 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”
\p And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”
\p
\v 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”
\p
\v 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.
\v 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?
\v 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”
\p
\v 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”
\p Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them.
\v 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?
\v 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.
\v 19 For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”
\p
\v 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.
\v 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”
\p
\v 22 So she stopped weeping.


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\v 1 Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.
\v 2 But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leaped out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man.
\v 3 But the angel said to him, “Grab the fish!”
\p So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land.
\p
\v 4 And the angel said to him, “Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you.”
\v 5 And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana.
\p
\v 6 The young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?”
\p
\v 7 He said to him, “About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee.
\v 8 But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed.”
\p
\v 9 But when they drew near to Rages,
\v 10 the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife.
\v 11 For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred.
\v 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”
\p
\v 13 Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber.
\v 14 Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”
\p
\v 15 But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.
\v 16 And when\f + \fr 6:16 \ft Gr. \fqa if. \f* you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them.
\v 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.”
\p When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.


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\v 1 They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house.
\v 2 Raguel said to Edna his wife, “This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!”
\v 3 And Raguel asked them, “Where are you two from, kindred?”
\p They said to him, “We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”
\p
\v 4 He said to them, “Do you know Tobit our brother?”
\p They said, “We know him.”
\p Then he said to them, “Is he in good health?”
\p
\v 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.”
\p
\v 6 And Raguel sprang up, and kissed him, wept,
\v 7 blessed him, and said to him, “You are the son of an honest and good man.” When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept;
\v 8 and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat.
\p But Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished.”
\p
\v 9 So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and make merry:
\v 10 for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth.
\v 11 I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.”
\p And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”
\p
\v 12 Raguel said, “Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you.”
\v 13 And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.
\v 14 He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it.
\v 15 Then they began to eat.
\p
\v 16 And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”
\v 17 She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,
\v 18 “Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor\f + \fr 7:18 \ft Many ancient authorities read \fqa joy. \f* for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”


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\v 1 When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her.
\v 2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.
\v 3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
\v 4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”
\v 5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.
\v 6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.
\v 7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”
\p
\v 8 She said with him, “Amen.” And they both slept that night.
\p
\v 9 Raguel arose, and went and dug a grave,
\v 10 saying, “Lest he also should die.”
\v 11 And Raguel came into his house,
\v 12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”
\p
\v 13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
\v 14 and came out, and told them that he was alive.
\p
\v 15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!
\v 16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
\v 17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.
\p
\v 18 He commanded his servants to fill the grave.
\v 19 He kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
\v 20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
\v 21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.


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\v 1 And Tobias called Raphael, and said to him,
\v 2 “Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,
\v 3 because Raguel has sworn that I must not depart.
\v 4 My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved.
\v 5 So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.
\v 6 Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.


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\h Judith
\toc1 Judith
\toc2 Judith
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\mt1 JUDITH
\ip \bk Judith\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.


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\v 1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,
\v 2 and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits;
\v 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;
\v 4 and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen—
\v 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.
\v 6 There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle.
\p
\v 7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast,
\v 8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,
\v 9 and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen,
\v 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
\v 11 All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace.
\v 12 And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.
\v 13 And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots.
\v 14 He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame.
\v 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.
\v 16 He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred twenty days.


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\v 1 It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words,
\v 2 that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days.
\v 3 She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband.
\v 4 She took sandals for her feet, and put her chains around her, and her bracelets, her rings, her earrings, and all her jewelry, and decked herself bravely, to deceive the eyes of all men who would see her.
\v 5 She gave her maid a leather container of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, lumps of figs, and fine\f + \fr 10:5 \ft Gr. \fqa pure. \f* bread. She packed all her vessels together, and laid them upon her.
\p
\v 6 They went out to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found Ozias and the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis standing by it.
\v 7 But when they saw her, that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very exceedingly, and said to her,
\v 8 “May the God of our fathers give you favor, and accomplish your purposes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem.”
\p Then she worshiped God,
\v 9 and said to them, “Command that they open the gate of the city for me, and I will go out to accomplish the things you spoke with me about.”
\p And they commanded the young men to open to her, as she had spoken;
\v 10 and they did so.
\p Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more.
\v 11 They went straight onward in the valley. The watch of the Assyrians met her;
\v 12 and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?”
\p She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed.
\v 13 I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.”
\p
\v 14 Now when the men heard her words, and considered her countenance, the beauty thereof was exceedingly marvelous in their eyes. They said to her,
\v 15 “You have saved your life, in that you have hurried to come down to the presence of our master. Now come to his tent. Some of us will guide you until they deliver you into his hands.
\v 16 But when\f + \fr 10:16 \ft Gr. \fqa if. \f* you stand before him, don’t be afraid in your heart, but declare to him according to your words; and he will treat you well.”
\v 17 They chose out of them a hundred men, and appointed them to accompany her and her maid; and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.
\p
\v 18 And there was great excitement throughout all the camp, for her coming was reported among the tents. They came and surrounded her as she stood outside Holofernes’ tent, until they told him about her.
\v 19 They marveled at her beauty, and marveled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbor, “Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let go, they will be able to deceive the whole earth.
\v 20 Those who lay near Holofernes, and all his servants, went out and brought her into the tent.
\v 21 And Holofernes was resting upon his bed under the canopy, which was woven with purple, gold, emeralds, and precious stones.
\v 22 And they told him about her; and he came out into the space before his tent, with silver lamps going before him.
\v 23 But when Judith had come before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance. She fell down upon her face, and bowed down to him, but his servants raised her up.


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\v 1 Holofernes said to her, “Woman, take courage. Don’t be afraid in your heart; for I never hurt anyone who has chosen to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.
\v 2 And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.
\v 3 And now tell me why you fled from them and came to us; for you have come to save yourself. Take courage! You will live tonight, and hereafter;
\v 4 for there is no one that will wrong you, but all will treat you well, as is done to the servants of king Nebuchadnezzar my lord.”
\p
\v 5 And Judith said to him, “Receive the words of your servant, and let your handmaid speak in your presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.
\v 6 If you will follow the words of your handmaid, God will bring the thing to pass perfectly with you; and my lord will not fail to accomplish his purposes.
\v 7 As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.
\v 8 For we have heard of your wisdom and the subtle plans of your soul. It has been reported in all the earth that you only are brave in all the kingdom, mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.
\v 9 And now as concerning the matter which Achior spoke in your council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared to them all that he had spoken before you.
\v 10 Therefore, O lord and master, don’t neglect his word; but lay it up in your heart, for it is true; for our race will not be punished, neither will the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.
\v 11 And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.
\v 12 Since their food failed them, and all their water was scant, they took counsel to lay hands upon their cattle, and determined to consume all those things which God charged them by his laws that they should not eat.
\v 13 They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn, and the tenths of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem; which things it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
\v 14 They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders.
\v 15 It will be, when word comes to them and they do it, they will be given to you to be destroyed the same day.
\v 16 Therefore I your servant, knowing all this, fled away from their presence. God sent me to work things with you, at which all the earth will be astonished, even as many as hear it.
\v 17 For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night. Now, my lord, I will stay with you, and your servant will go out by night into the valley. I will pray to God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
\v 18 Then I will come and show it also to you. Then you shall go out with all your army, and there will be none of them that will resist you.
\v 19 And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”
\p
\v 20 Her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants. They marveled at her wisdom, and said,
\v 21 “There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”
\p
\v 22 Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction among those who slighted my lord.
\v 23 And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and wise in your words. If you will do as you have spoken, your God will be my God, and you will dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and will be renowned through the whole earth.”


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\v 1 He commanded that she should be brought in where his silver vessels were set, and asked that his servants should prepare some of his own meats for her, and that she should drink from his own wine.
\p
\v 2 And Judith said, “I will not eat of it, lest there be an occasion of stumbling: but provision will be made for me of the things that have come with me.”
\p
\v 3 And Holofernes said to her, “But if the things that are with you should fail, from where will we be able to give you more like it? For there is none of your race with us.”
\p
\v 4 And Judith said to him, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not spend those things that are with me, until the Lord works by my hand the things that he has determined.”
\v 5 Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up toward the morning watch,
\v 6 and sent to Holofernes, saying, “Let my lord now command that they allow your servant to go out to pray.”
\p
\v 7 Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp.
\v 8 And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of his people.
\v 9 She came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she ate her food toward evening.
\p
\v 10 It came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.
\v 11 And he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, “Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she come to us, and eat and drink with us.
\v 12 For, behold, it is a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we don’t draw her to ourselves, she will laugh us to scorn.”
\p
\v 13 Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and came in to her, and said, “Let this fair lady not fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to be made this day as one of the daughters of the children of Asshur, which wait in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”
\p
\v 14 Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”
\v 15 She arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire; and her servant went and laid fleeces on the ground for her next to Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.
\p
\v 16 Judith came in and sat down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her. His soul was moved, and he exceedingly desired her company. He was watching for a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.
\v 17 Holofernes said to her, “Drink now, and be merry with us.”
\p
\v 18 Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”
\v 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her servant had prepared.
\v 20 Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceedingly much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.


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\v 1 But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
\v 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.
\v 3 Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.
\v 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.
\v 5 For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.
\v 6 She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.
\v 7 She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”
\v 8 She struck twice upon his neck with all her might, and took away his head from him,
\v 9 tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;
\v 10 and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.
\p
\v 11 Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”
\p
\v 12 It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.
\v 13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.
\v 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”
\v 15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.
\v 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”
\p
\v 17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”
\v 18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.
\v 19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.
\v 20 May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”
\p And all the people said, “Amen! Amen!”


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\v 1 Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall.
\v 2 It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain toward the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down.
\v 3 These shall take up their full armor, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face.
\v 4 You men, and all that inhabit every coast of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go.
\v 5 But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death.
\p
\v 6 And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed.
\v 7 But when they had recovered him,\f + \fr 14:7 \ft Many authorities read \fqa he had recovered himself. \f* he fell at Judith’s feet, and bowed down to her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah, and in every nation, which hearing your name will be troubled.
\v 8 Now tell me all the things that you have done in these days.”
\p And Judith declared to him in the midst of the people all the things that she had done, from the day that she went out until the time that she spoke to them.
\v 9 But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.
\v 10 But when Achior saw all the things that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God exceedingly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the house of Israel, to this day.
\p
\v 11 But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons, and they went forth by bands to the ascents of the mountain.
\v 12 But when the children of Asshur saw them, they sent word to their leaders; but they went to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.
\v 13 They came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that was over all that he had, “Wake our lord up, now; for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.”
\v 14 Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.
\v 15 But when no one listened to him, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead, and his head had been taken from him.
\v 16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping and groaning and a mighty cry, and tore his garments.
\v 17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud,
\v 18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of king Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”
\p
\v 19 But when the rulers of the army of Asshur heard the words, they tore their coats, and their soul was troubled exceedingly. There was a cry and an exceedingly great noise in the midst of the camp.


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\v 1 When those who were in the tents heard, they were amazed at what happened.
\v 2 Trembling and fear fell upon them, and no man dared stay any more in the sight of his neighbor, but rushing out with one accord, they fled into every way of the plain and of the hill country.
\v 3 Those who had encamped in the hill country round about Bethulia fled away. And then the children of Israel, every one who was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.
\v 4 Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.
\v 5 But wnen the children of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord, and struck them to Chobai. Yes, and in like manner also they of Jerusalem and of all the hill country came (for men had told them about what happened in their enemies’ camp), and those who were in Gilead and in Galilee fell upon their flank with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and its borders.
\v 6 The rest of the people who lived at Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, and plundered them, and were enriched exceedingly.
\v 7 The children of Israel returned from the slaughter, and got possession of that which remained. The villages and the cities that were in the hill country and in the plain country, took many spoils; for there was an exceedingly great supply.
\p
\v 8 Joakim the high priest, and the elders of the children of Israel who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things which the Lord had showed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.
\v 9 When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!
\v 10 You have done all these things by your hand. You have done with Israel the things that are good, and God is pleased with it. Blessed be you with the Almighty Lord forever.”
\p And all the people said, “Amen!”
\p
\v 11 And the people plundered the camp for the space of thirty days: and they gave Holofernes’ tent to Judith, along with all his silver cups, his beds, his bowls, and all his furniture. She took them, and placed them on her mule, and prepared her wagons, and heaped them on it.
\p
\v 12 And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance among them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.\f + \fr 15:12 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 10:7. \f*
\v 13 Then they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.


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\v 1 And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.
\v 2 Judith said,
\q1 “Begin a song to my God with timbrels.
\q2 Sing to my Lord with cymbals.
\q1 Make melody to him psalm and praise.
\q2 Exalt him, and call upon his name.
\q1
\v 3 For the Lord is the God that crushes battles.
\q2 For in his armies in the midst of the people,
\q2 he delivered me out of the hand of those who persecuted me.
\q1
\v 4 Asshur came out of the mountains from the north.
\q2 He came with ten thousands of his army.
\q1 Its multitude stopped the torrents.
\q2 Their horsemen covered the hills.
\q1
\v 5 He said that he would burn up my borders,
\q2 kill my young men with the sword,
\q2 throw my nursing children to the ground,
\q2 give my infants up as prey,
\q2 and make my virgins a plunder.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman.
\q2
\v 7 For their mighty one didn’t fall by young men,
\q2 neither did sons of the Titans strike him.
\q1 Tall giants didn’t attack him,
\q2 but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “For she put off the apparel of her widowhood
\q2 for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel.
\q1 She anointed her face with ointment,
\q2 bound her hair in a tiara,
\q2 and took a linen garment to deceive him.
\q1
\v 9 Her sandal ravished his eye.
\q2 Her beauty took his soul prisoner.
\q2 The scimitar passed through his neck.
\q1
\v 10 “The Persians quaked at her daring.
\q2 The Medes were daunted at her boldness.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Then my lowly ones shouted aloud.
\q2 My weak ones were terrified and trembled for fear.
\q2 They lifted up their voice, and they fled.
\q1
\v 12 The sons of ladies pierced them through,
\q2 and wounded them as fugitives’ children.
\q2 They perished by the battle of my Lord.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “I will sing to my God a new song:
\q2 O Lord, you are great and glorious,
\q2 marvelous in strength, invincible.
\q1
\v 14 Let all your creation serve you;
\q2 for you spoke, and they were made.
\q1 You sent out your spirit, and it built them.
\q2 There is no one who can resist your voice.
\q1
\v 15 For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters,
\q2 and the rocks will melt as wax at your presence:
\q2 But you are yet merciful to those who fear you.
\q1
\v 16 For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor,
\q2 And all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you;
\q2 But he who fears the Lord is great continually.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “Woe to the nations who rise up against my race!
\q2 The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgement,
\q1 to put fire and worms in their flesh;
\q1 and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”
\p
\v 18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.
\v 19 Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.
\p
\v 20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.
\v 21 But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
\v 22 Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.
\v 23 She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
\v 24 The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.
\v 25 There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.


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\v 1 In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.
\v 2 He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.
\v 3 They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth.
\v 4 It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him,
\v 5 “The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders.
\v 6 And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.
\v 7 You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.
\v 8 Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows.
\v 9 I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
\v 10 But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you,\f + \fr 2:10 \ft Gr. \fqa they will yield...and you shall reserve.\f* then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof.
\v 11 As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land.
\v 12 For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand.
\v 13 Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.”
\p
\v 14 So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur.
\v 15 He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback.
\v 16 He arranged them as a great multitude is ordered for the war.
\v 17 He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,
\v 18 and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house.
\v 19 He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.
\v 20 A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.
\p
\v 21 And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
\v 22 And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,
\v 23 and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.
\v 24 And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.
\v 25 And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, opposite Arabia.
\v 26 He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds.
\v 27 He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword.
\p
\v 28 And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.


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\v 1 And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying,
\v 2 “Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.
\v 3 Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.
\v 4 Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”
\p
\v 5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.
\p
\v 6 He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.
\v 7 They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.
\v 8 He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.
\v 9 Then he came toward Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.
\v 10 He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.


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\v 1 The children of Israel that lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly.
\v 2 They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;
\v 3 because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned.
\p
\v 4 And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem;
\v 5 and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped.
\v 6 Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon toward the plain that is near to Dothaim,
\v 7 charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most.
\v 8 And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem.
\p
\v 9 And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls.
\v 10 They, their wives, their children, their cattle, and every sojourner, hireling, and servant bought with their money put sackcloth on their loins.
\v 11 Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar.
\v 12 They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at.
\v 13 The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.
\v 14 And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people.
\v 15 They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good.


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\v 1 Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains.
\v 2 Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,
\v 3 and he said to them, “Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army?
\v 4 Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”
\p
\v 5 Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.
\v 6 These people are descended from the Chaldeans.
\v 7 They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.
\v 8 They departed from the way of their parents, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
\v 9 Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.
\v 10 Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation.
\v 11 Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labor in brick,\f + \fr 5:11 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and he brought them low with clay and brick, etc. \f* and made them slaves.
\v 12 They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
\v 13 God dried up the Red sea before them,
\v 14 and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness.
\v 15 They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.
\v 16 They cast out before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Shechemite, and all the Girgashites, and they lived in that country many days.
\v 17 And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them.
\v 18 But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries.
\v 19 And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.
\v 20 And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them.
\v 21 But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth.”
\p
\v 22 It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.
\v 23 For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong.
\v 24 Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.”


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\v 1 And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab\f + \fr 6:1 \ft Some authorities read \fqa Ammon. \ft Compare ver. 5. \f* before all the people of the foreigners,
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\v 2 “And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim,\f + \fr 6:2 \ft Some authorities read \fqa Ammon. \ft Compare ver. 5. \f* that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
\v 3 He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses.
\v 4 For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken\f + \fr 6:4 \ft Gr. \fqa he has spoken. \f* will not be in vain.’
\v 5 But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.
\v 6 And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall among their slain when I return.
\v 7 Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents.
\v 8 You will not perish until you are destroyed with them.
\v 9 And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground.”
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\v 10 Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
\v 11 So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia.
\v 12 When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them.
\v 13 They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord.
\v 14 But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city;
\v 15 which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
\v 16 Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened.
\v 17 He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel.
\v 18 Then the people fell down and worshiped God, and cried, saying,
\v 19 “O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day.”
\v 20 They comforted Achior, and praised him exceedingly.
\v 21 Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night.


