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\c 8
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\v 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
\v 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
\v 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
\v 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
\p
\v 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
\v 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
\v 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
\v 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
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\v 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
\v 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.
\v 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
\v 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
\p
\v 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”
\p
\v 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”
\p
\v 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.
\v 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
\p
\v 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”
\p
\v 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
\p
\v 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
\v 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
\v 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
\v 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
\p
\v 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.
\v 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.
\v 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.
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\v 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”
\p
\v 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
\v 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word\f + \fr 9:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. \f* came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
\v 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\v 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said,
\pi1 “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
\v 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
\v 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
\pi1
\v 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
\v 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
\v 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
\v 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
\v 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.
\pi1 “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
\v 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
\v 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
\v 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
\pi1
\v 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
\v 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
\pi1
\v 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
\v 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
\v 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
\b
\p
\v 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
\v 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
\v 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
\v 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
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\v 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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\v 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,\f + \fr 9:25 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
\v 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One\f + \fr 9:26 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
\v 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”


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\ide UTF-8
\h Hosea
\toc1 The Book of Hosea
\toc2 Hosea
\toc3 Hos
\mt2 The Book of
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\c 1
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\v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
\v 2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
\p
\v 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
\v 5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
\p
\v 6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
\p Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah\f + \fr 1:6 \ft Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.\f*; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
\v 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
\p
\v 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
\p
\v 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi\f + \fr 1:9 \ft Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.\f*; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
\v 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
\v 11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.


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\c 10
\p
\v 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit.
\q2 According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars.
\q2 As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
\q1
\v 2 Their heart is divided.
\q2 Now they will be found guilty.
\q2 He will demolish their altars.
\q2 He will destroy their sacred stones.
\q1
\v 3 Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh;
\q2 and the king, what can he do for us?”
\q1
\v 4 They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants.
\q2 Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
\q1
\v 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven;
\q2 for its people will mourn over it,
\q2 Along with its priests who rejoiced over it,
\q2 for its glory, because it has departed from it.
\q1
\v 6 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king.
\q2 Ephraim will receive shame,
\q2 and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
\q1
\v 7 Samaria and her king float away,
\q2 like a twig on the water.
\q1
\v 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed.
\q2 The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars.
\q2 They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”
\b
\q1
\v 9 “Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah.
\q2 There they remained.
\q2 The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.
\q1
\v 10 When it is my desire, I will chastise them;
\q2 and the nations will be gathered against them,
\q2 when they are bound to their two transgressions.
\q1
\v 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh;
\q2 so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck.
\q2 I will set a rider on Ephraim.
\q2 Judah will plow.
\q2 Jacob will break his clods.
\q1
\v 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness,
\q2 reap according to kindness.
\q1 Break up your fallow ground;
\q2 for it is time to seek Yahweh,
\q2 until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
\q1
\v 13 You have plowed wickedness.
\q2 You have reaped iniquity.
\q2 You have eaten the fruit of lies,
\q2 for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
\q1
\v 14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people,
\q2 and all your fortresses will be destroyed,
\q2 as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle.
\q2 The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
\q1
\v 15 So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness.
\q2 At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
\b


file: ./bibles/Sample/28/11/100000001
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\c 11
\p
\v 1 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
\q2 and called my son out of Egypt.
\q1
\v 2 They called to them, so they went from them.
\q2 They sacrificed to the Baals,
\q2 and burned incense to engraved images.
\q1
\v 3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
\q2 I took them by his arms;
\q2 but they didn’t know that I healed them.
\q1
\v 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
\q2 and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
\q2 and I bent down to him and I fed him.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “They won’t return into the land of Egypt;
\q2 but the Assyrian will be their king,
\q2 because they refused to repent.
\q1
\v 6 The sword will fall on their cities,
\q2 and will destroy the bars of their gates,
\q2 and will put an end to their plans.
\q1
\v 7 My people are determined to turn from me.
\q2 Though they call to the Most High,
\q2 he certainly won’t exalt them.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim?
\q2 How can I hand you over, Israel?
\q2 How can I make you like Admah?
\q2 How can I make you like Zeboiim?
\q1 My heart is turned within me,
\q2 my compassion is aroused.
\q1
\v 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
\q2 I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
\q2 for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you;
\q2 and I will not come in wrath.
\q1
\v 10 They will walk after Yahweh,
\q2 who will roar like a lion;
\q2 for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
\q1
\v 11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
\q2 and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
\q1 and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
\q2 and the house of Israel with deceit.
\q2 Judah still strays from God,
\q2 and is unfaithful to the Holy One.


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\c 12
\p
\v 1 Ephraim feeds on wind,
\q2 and chases the east wind.
\q2 He continually multiplies lies and desolation.
\q2 They make a covenant with Assyria,
\q2 and oil is carried into Egypt.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah,
\q2 and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
\q2 according to his deeds he will repay him.
\q1
\v 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel;
\q2 and in his manhood he contended with God.
\q1
\v 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;
\q2 he wept, and made supplication to him.
\q2 He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
\q2
\v 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies;
\q2 Yahweh is his name of renown!
\q1
\v 6 Therefore turn to your God.
\q2 Keep kindness and justice,
\q2 and wait continually for your God.
\b
\q1
\v 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.
\q2 He loves to defraud.
\q1
\v 8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
\q2 I have found myself wealth.
\q2 In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 “But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.
\q2 I will yet again make you dwell in tents,
\q2 as in the days of the solemn feast.
\q1
\v 10 I have also spoken to the prophets,
\q2 and I have multiplied visions;
\q2 and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
\q1
\v 11 If Gilead is wicked,
\q2 surely they are worthless.
\q1 In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.
\q2 Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
\q1
\v 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram,
\q2 and Israel served to get a wife,
\q2 and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
\q1
\v 13 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt,
\q2 and by a prophet he was preserved.
\q1
\v 14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.
\q2 Therefore his blood will be left on him,
\q2 and his Lord\f + \fr 12:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* will repay his contempt.


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\c 13
\p
\v 1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
\q2 He exalted himself in Israel,
\q2 but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
\q1
\v 2 Now they sin more and more,
\q2 and have made themselves molten images of their silver,
\q2 even idols according to their own understanding,
\q2 all of them the work of the craftsmen.
\q2 They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
\q1
\v 3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
\q2 and like the dew that passes away early,
\q2 like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor,
\q2 and like the smoke out of the chimney.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt;
\q2 and you shall acknowledge no god but me,
\q2 and besides me there is no savior.
\q1
\v 5 I knew you in the wilderness,
\q2 in the land of great drought.
\q1
\v 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled;
\q2 they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
\q2 Therefore they have forgotten me.
\q1
\v 7 Therefore I am like a lion to them.
\q2 Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
\q1
\v 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs,
\q2 and will tear the covering of their heart.
\q2 There I will devour them like a lioness.
\q2 The wild animal will tear them.
\q1
\v 9 You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me,
\q2 against your help.
\q1
\v 10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities?
\q2 And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes?’
\q1
\v 11 I have given you a king in my anger,
\q2 and have taken him away in my wrath.
\q1
\v 12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.
\q2 His sin is stored up.
\q1
\v 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him.
\q2 He is an unwise son;
\q2 for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
\q1
\v 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.\f + \fr 13:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 I will redeem them from death!
\q2 Death, where are your plagues?
\q2 Sheol, where is your destruction?
\b
\q1 “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
\q2
\v 15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come,
\q2 the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness;
\q2 and his spring will become dry,
\q2 and his fountain will be dried up.
\q2 He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
\q1
\v 16 Samaria will bear her guilt;
\q2 for she has rebelled against her God.
\q2 They will fall by the sword.
\q2 Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
\q2 and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
\b


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\c 14
\q1
\v 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God;
\q2 for you have fallen because of your sin.
\q1
\v 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
\q2 Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
\q2 and accept that which is good:
\q2 so we offer our lips like bulls.
\q1
\v 3 Assyria can’t save us.
\q2 We won’t ride on horses;
\q2 neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’
\q2 for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 “I will heal their waywardness.
\q2 I will love them freely;
\q2 for my anger is turned away from him.
\q1
\v 5 I will be like the dew to Israel.
\q2 He will blossom like the lily,
\q2 and send down his roots like Lebanon.
\q1
\v 6 His branches will spread,
\q2 and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
\q2 and his fragrance like Lebanon.
\q1
\v 7 Men will dwell in his shade.
\q2 They will revive like the grain,
\q2 and blossom like the vine.
\q2 Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
\q1
\v 8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?
\q2 I answer, and will take care of him.
\q2 I am like a green cypress tree;
\q2 from me your fruit is found.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
\q2 Who is prudent, that he may know them?
\q2 For the ways of Yahweh are right,
\q2 and the righteous walk in them;
\q2 But the rebellious stumble in them.


file: ./bibles/Sample/28/2/100000001
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\c 2
\p
\v 1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew\f*
\q2 and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew\f*
\q1
\v 2 Contend with your mother!
\q2 Contend, for she is not my wife,
\q2 neither am I her husband;
\q1 and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
\q2 and her adulteries from between her breasts;
\q1
\v 3 Lest I strip her naked,
\q2 and make her bare as in the day that she was born,
\q1 and make her like a wilderness,
\q2 and set her like a dry land,
\q2 and kill her with thirst.
\q1
\v 4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
\q2 for they are children of unfaithfulness;
\q1
\v 5 For their mother has played the prostitute.
\q2 She who conceived them has done shamefully;
\q1 for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
\q2 who give me my bread and my water,
\q2 my wool and my flax,
\q2 my oil and my drink.’
\q1
\v 6 Therefore behold,\f + \fr 2:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will hedge up your way with thorns,
\q2 and I will build a wall against her,
\q2 that she can’t find her way.
\q1
\v 7 She will follow after her lovers,
\q2 but she won’t overtake them;
\q1 and she will seek them,
\q2 but won’t find them.
\q1 Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband;
\q2 for then was it better with me than now.’
\q1
\v 8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
\q2 and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
\q1
\v 9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
\q2 and my new wine in its season,
\q2 and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
\q1
\v 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
\q2 and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
\q1
\v 11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
\q2 her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
\q1
\v 12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
\q2 about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me;
\q2 and I will make them a forest,’
\q2 and the animals of the field shall eat them.
\q1
\v 13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
\q2 to which she burned incense,
\q1 when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
\q2 and went after her lovers,
\q2 and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her,
\q2 and bring her into the wilderness,
\q2 and speak tenderly to her.
\q1
\v 15 I will give her vineyards from there,
\q2 and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
\q1 and she will respond there,
\q2 as in the days of her youth,
\q2 and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
\q1
\v 16 It will be in that day,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that you will call me ‘my husband,’
\q2 and no longer call me ‘my master.’
\q1
\v 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,
\q2 and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
\q1
\v 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,
\q2 and with the birds of the sky,
\q2 and with the creeping things of the ground.
\q1 I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land,
\q2 and will make them lie down safely.
\q1
\v 19 I will betroth you to me forever.
\q2 Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
\q1
\v 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
\q2 and you shall know Yahweh.
\q1
\v 21 It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “I will respond to the heavens,
\q2 and they will respond to the earth;
\q2
\v 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
\q2 and they will respond to Jezreel.
\q1
\v 23 I will sow her to me in the earth;
\q2 and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
\q2 and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’
\q2 and they will say, ‘My God!’”


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
\p
\v 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer \f + \fr 3:2 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* and a half of barley.
\v 3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
\p
\v 4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
\v 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel;
\q2 for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land:
\q1 “Indeed there is no truth,
\q2 nor goodness,
\q2 nor knowledge of God in the land.
\q1
\v 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
\q2 they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
\q1
\v 3 Therefore the land will mourn,
\q2 and everyone who dwells in it will waste away,
\q1 with all living things in her,
\q2 even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,
\q2 yes, the fish of the sea also die.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
\q1
\v 5 You will stumble in the day,
\q2 and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
\q2 and I will destroy your mother.
\q1
\v 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
\q2 Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you,
\q2 that you may be no priest to me.
\q1 Because you have forgotten your God’s law,
\q2 I will also forget your children.
\q1
\v 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me.
\q2 I will change their glory into shame.
\q1
\v 8 They feed on the sin of my people,
\q2 and set their heart on their iniquity.
\q1
\v 9 It will be, like people, like priest;
\q2 and I will punish them for their ways,
\q2 and will repay them for their deeds.
\q1
\v 10 They will eat, and not have enough.
\q2 They will play the prostitute, and will not increase;
\q2 because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
\q2
\v 12 My people consult with their wooden idol,
\q2 and answer to a stick of wood.
\q1 Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
\q2 and they have been unfaithful to their God.
\q1
\v 13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains,
\q2 and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths,
\q2 because its shade is good.
\q1 Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
\q2 and your brides commit adultery.
\q1
\v 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute,
\q2 nor your brides when they commit adultery;
\q1 because the men consort with prostitutes,
\q2 and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes;
\q2 so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute,
\q2 yet don’t let Judah offend;
\q2 and don’t come to Gilgal,
\q2 neither go up to Beth Aven,
\q2 nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
\q1
\v 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer.
\q2 Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
\q1
\v 17 Ephraim is joined to idols.
\q2 Leave him alone!
\q1
\v 18 Their drink has become sour.
\q2 They play the prostitute continually.
\q2 Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
\q1
\v 19 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings;
\q2 and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
\b


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\c 5
\p
\v 1 “Listen to this, you priests!
\q2 Listen, house of Israel,
\q2 and give ear, house of the king!
\q1 For the judgment is against you;
\q2 for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
\q2 and a net spread on Tabor.
\q1
\v 2 The rebels are deep in slaughter;
\q2 but I discipline all of them.
\q1
\v 3 I know Ephraim,
\q2 and Israel is not hidden from me;
\q1 for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
\q2 Israel is defiled.
\q1
\v 4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God;
\q2 for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
\q2 and they don’t know Yahweh.
\q1
\v 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
\q2 Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
\q2 Judah also will stumble with them.
\q1
\v 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;
\q2 but they won’t find him.
\q2 He has withdrawn himself from them.
\q1
\v 7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
\q2 for they have borne illegitimate children.
\q2 Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
\q2 and the trumpet in Ramah!
\q2 Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
\q1
\v 9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.
\q2 Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
\q1
\v 10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.
\q2 I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
\q1
\v 11 Ephraim is oppressed,
\q2 he is crushed in judgment;
\q2 Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
\q1
\v 12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
\q2 and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
\q2 and Judah his wound,
\q2 Then Ephraim went to Assyria,
\q2 and sent to king Jareb:
\q1 but he is not able to heal you,
\q2 neither will he cure you of your wound.
\q1
\v 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
\q2 and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
\q1 I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
\q2 I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
\q1
\v 15 I will go and return to my place,
\q2 until they acknowledge their offense,
\q2 and seek my face.
\q2 In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
\b


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh;
\q2 for he has torn us to pieces,
\q2 and he will heal us;
\q1 he has injured us,
\q2 and he will bind up our wounds.
\q1
\v 2 After two days he will revive us.
\q2 On the third day he will raise us up,
\q2 and we will live before him.
\q1
\v 3 Let’s acknowledge Yahweh.
\q2 Let’s press on to know Yahweh.
\q1 As surely as the sun rises,
\q2 Yahweh will appear.
\q1 He will come to us like the rain,
\q2 like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
\q2 Judah, what shall I do to you?
\q2 For your love is like a morning cloud,
\q2 and like the dew that disappears early.
\q1
\v 5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets;
\q2 I killed them with the words of my mouth.
\q2 Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
\q1
\v 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
\q2 and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
\q1
\v 7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.
\q2 They were unfaithful to me, there.
\q1
\v 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
\q2 it is stained with blood.
\q1
\v 9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
\q2 so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
\q2 committing shameful crimes.
\q1
\v 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
\q2 There is prostitution in Ephraim.
\q2 Israel is defiled.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
\q2 when I restore the fortunes of my people.


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 When I would heal Israel,
\q2 then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
\q2 also the wickedness of Samaria;
\q2 for they commit falsehood,
\q2 and the thief enters in,
\q2 and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
\q1
\v 2 They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.
\q2 Now their own deeds have engulfed them.
\q2 They are before my face.
\q1
\v 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness,
\q2 and the princes with their lies.
\q1
\v 4 They are all adulterers.
\q2 They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
\q2 from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
\q1
\v 5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
\q2 He joined his hand with mockers.
\q1
\v 6 For they have prepared their heart like an oven,
\q2 while they lie in wait.
\q2 Their baker sleeps all the night.
\q2 In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
\q1
\v 7 They are all hot as an oven,
\q2 and devour their judges.
\q1 All their kings have fallen.
\q2 There is no one among them who calls to me.
\q1
\v 8 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations.
\q2 Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
\q1
\v 9 Strangers have devoured his strength,
\q2 and he doesn’t realize it.
\q1 Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,
\q2 and he doesn’t realize it.
\q1
\v 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
\q2 yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God,
\q2 nor sought him, for all this.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.
\q2 They call to Egypt.
\q2 They go to Assyria.
\q1
\v 12 When they go, I will spread my net on them.
\q2 I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
\q2 I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
\q1
\v 13 Woe to them!
\q2 For they have wandered from me.
\q1 Destruction to them!
\q2 For they have trespassed against me.
\q1 Though I would redeem them,
\q2 yet they have spoken lies against me.
\q1
\v 14 They haven’t cried to me with their heart,
\q2 but they howl on their beds.
\q1 They assemble themselves for grain and new wine.
\q2 They turn away from me.
\q1
\v 15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms,
\q2 yet they plot evil against me.
\q1
\v 16 They return, but not to the Most High.
\q2 They are like a faulty bow.
\q2 Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue.
\q2 This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
\b


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\c 8
\p
\v 1 “Put the trumpet to your lips!
\q2 Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,
\q2 because they have broken my covenant,
\q2 and rebelled against my law.
\q1
\v 2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
\q2
\v 3 Israel has cast off that which is good.
\q2 The enemy will pursue him.
\q1
\v 4 They have set up kings, but not by me.
\q2 They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
\q2 Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
\q2 that they may be cut off.
\q1
\v 5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
\q2 My anger burns against them!
\q2 How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
\q1
\v 6 For this is even from Israel!
\q2 The workman made it, and it is no God;
\q2 indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
\q1
\v 7 For they sow the wind,
\q2 and they will reap the whirlwind.
\q1 He has no standing grain.
\q2 The stalk will yield no head.
\q2 If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
\q1
\v 8 Israel is swallowed up.
\q2 Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
\q1
\v 9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
\q2 like a wild donkey wandering alone.
\q2 Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
\q1
\v 10 But although they sold themselves among the nations,
\q2 I will now gather them;
\q2 and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
\q1
\v 11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
\q2 they became for him altars for sinning.
\q1
\v 12 I wrote for him the many things of my law;
\q2 but they were regarded as a strange thing.
\q1
\v 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
\q2 they sacrifice meat and eat it;
\q2 But Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
\q1 Now he will remember their iniquity,
\q2 and punish their sins.
\q2 They will return to Egypt.
\q1
\v 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
\q2 and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
\q2 but I will send a fire on his cities,
\q2 and it will devour its fortresses.”
\b


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;
\q2 for you were unfaithful to your God.
\q2 You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
\q1
\v 2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,
\q2 and the new wine will fail her.
\q1
\v 3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
\q2 but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
\q2 and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
\q1
\v 4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,
\q2 neither will they be pleasing to him.
\q2 Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
\q2 all who eat of it will be polluted;
\q2 for their bread will be for their appetite.
\q2 It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
\q1
\v 5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,
\q2 and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
\q1
\v 6 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.
\q2 Egypt will gather them up.
\q2 Memphis will bury them.
\q2 Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.
\q2 Thorns will be in their tents.
\q1
\v 7 The days of visitation have come.
\q2 The days of reckoning have come.
\q1 Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
\q2 and the man who is inspired to be insane,
\q2 because of the abundance of your sins,
\q2 and because your hostility is great.
\q1
\v 8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
\q2 A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
\q2 and hostility in the house of his God.
\q1
\v 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
\q2 as in the days of Gibeah.
\q2 He will remember their iniquity.
\q2 He will punish them for their sins.
\q1
\v 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
\q2 I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;
\q2 but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,
\q2 and became abominable like that which they loved.
\q1
\v 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.
\q2 There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
\q1
\v 12 Though they bring up their children,
\q2 yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.
\q2 Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
\q1
\v 13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;
\q2 but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
\q1
\v 14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give?
\q2 Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
\q2 for there I hated them.
\q2 Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house!
\q2 I will love them no more.
\q2 All their princes are rebels.
\q1
\v 16 Ephraim is struck.
\q2 Their root has dried up.
\q2 They will bear no fruit.
\q2 Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
\b
\q1
\v 17 My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him;
\q2 and they will be wanderers among the nations.


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\ide UTF-8
\h Joel
\toc1 The Book of Joel
\toc2 Joel
\toc3 Jol
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Joel


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\c 1
\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
\q1
\v 2 Hear this, you elders,
\q2 And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
\q1 Has this ever happened in your days,
\q2 or in the days of your fathers?
\q1
\v 3 Tell your children about it,
\q2 and have your children tell their children,
\q2 and their children, another generation.
\q1
\v 4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
\q2 What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
\q2 What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
\q1
\v 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
\q2 Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;
\q2 for it is cut off from your mouth.
\q1
\v 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
\q2 His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
\q2 and he has the fangs of a lioness.
\q1
\v 7 He has laid my vine waste,
\q2 and stripped my fig tree.
\q2 He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
\q2 Its branches are made white.
\q1
\v 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
\v 9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house.
\q2 The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
\q1
\v 10 The field is laid waste.
\q2 The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
\q2 The new wine has dried up,
\q2 and the oil languishes.
\q1
\v 11 Be confounded, you farmers!
\q2 Wail, you vineyard keepers;
\q2 for the wheat and for the barley;
\q2 for the harvest of the field has perished.
\q1
\v 12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered;
\q2 the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
\q2 even all of the trees of the field are withered;
\q2 for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
\q1
\v 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
\q2 Wail, you ministers of the altar.
\q1 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,\f + \fr 1:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q2 for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
\q1
\v 14 Sanctify a fast.
\q2 Call a solemn assembly.
\q2 Gather the elders,
\q2 and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God,
\q2 and cry to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 15 Alas for the day!
\q2 For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
\q2 and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
\q1
\v 16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes;
\q2 joy and gladness from the house of our God?
\q1
\v 17 The seeds rot under their clods.
\q2 The granaries are laid desolate.
\q2 The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
\q1
\v 18 How the animals groan!
\q2 The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
\q2 Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh, I cry to you,
\q2 For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
\q2 and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
\q1
\v 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
\q2 for the water brooks have dried up,
\q2 And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
\b


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\c 2
\q1
\v 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
\q2 and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
\q1 Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
\q2 for the day of Yahweh comes,
\q2 for it is close at hand:
\q1
\v 2 A day of darkness and gloominess,
\q2 a day of clouds and thick darkness.
\q1 As the dawn spreading on the mountains,
\q2 a great and strong people;
\q2 there has never been the like,
\q2 neither will there be any more after them,
\q2 even to the years of many generations.
\q1
\v 3 A fire devours before them,
\q2 and behind them, a flame burns.
\q1 The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
\q2 and behind them, a desolate wilderness.
\q1 Yes, and no one has escaped them.
\q1
\v 4 Their appearance is as the appearance of horses,
\q2 and they run as horsemen.
\q1
\v 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap,
\q2 like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,
\q2 like a strong people set in battle array.
\q1
\v 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish.
\q2 All faces have grown pale.
\q1
\v 7 They run like mighty men.
\q2 They climb the wall like warriors.
\q2 They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
\q1
\v 8 Neither does one jostle another;
\q2 they march everyone in his path,
\q2 and they burst through the defenses,
\q2 and don’t break ranks.
\q1
\v 9 They rush on the city.
\q2 They run on the wall.
\q2 They climb up into the houses.
\q2 They enter in at the windows like thieves.
\q1
\v 10 The earth quakes before them.
\q2 The heavens tremble.
\q2 The sun and the moon are darkened,
\q2 and the stars withdraw their shining.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army;
\q2 for his forces are very great;
\q2 for he is strong who obeys his command;
\q2 for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome,
\q2 and who can endure it?
\q1
\v 12 “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,
\q2 and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
\q1
\v 13 Tear your heart, and not your garments,
\q2 and turn to Yahweh, your God;
\q2 for he is gracious and merciful,
\q2 slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
\q2 and relents from sending calamity.
\q1
\v 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent,
\q2 and leave a blessing behind him,
\q2 even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
\q1
\v 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion!
\q2 Sanctify a fast.
\q2 Call a solemn assembly.
\q1
\v 16 Gather the people.
\q2 Sanctify the assembly.
\q2 Assemble the elders.
\q2 Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.
\q1 Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
\q2 and the bride out of her room.
\q1
\v 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,
\q2 and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh,
\q2 and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
\q2 that the nations should rule over them.
\q1 Why should they say among the peoples,
\q2 ‘Where is their God?’”
\q1
\v 18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
\q2 And had pity on his people.
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh answered his people,
\q2 “Behold,\f + \fr 2:19 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
\q2 and you will be satisfied with them;
\q2 and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
\q1
\v 20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
\q2 and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
\q2 its front into the eastern sea,
\q2 and its back into the western sea;
\q2 and its stench will come up,
\q2 and its bad smell will rise.”
\q1 Surely he has done great things.
\q1
\v 21 Land, don’t be afraid.
\q2 Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
\q1
\v 22 Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
\q2 for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
\q2 for the tree bears its fruit.
\q2 The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
\b
\q1
\v 23 “Be glad then, you children of Zion,
\q2 and rejoice in Yahweh, your God;
\q2 for he gives you the early rain in just measure,
\q2 and he causes the rain to come down for you,
\q2 the early rain and the latter rain,
\q2 as before.
\q1
\v 24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
\q2 and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
\q1
\v 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
\q2 the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,
\q2 my great army, which I sent among you.
\q1
\v 26 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied,
\q2 and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God,
\q2 who has dealt wondrously with you;
\q2 and my people will never again be disappointed.
\q1
\v 27 You will know that I am among Israel,
\q2 and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else;
\q2 and my people will never again be disappointed.
\b
\q1
\v 28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
\q2 and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
\q2 Your old men will dream dreams.
\q2 Your young men will see visions.
\q1
\v 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,
\q2 I will pour out my Spirit.
\q1
\v 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
\q2 blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
\q1
\v 31 The sun will be turned into darkness,
\q2 and the moon into blood,
\q2 before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
\q1
\v 32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved;
\q2 for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
\q2 as Yahweh has said,
\q2 and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
\b


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\v 1 “For, behold, in those days,
\q2 and in that time,
\q2 when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
\q1
\v 2 I will gather all nations,
\q2 and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
\q2 and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
\q2 and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
\q2 They have divided my land,
\q2
\v 3 and have cast lots for my people,
\q2 and have given a boy for a prostitute,
\q2 and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon,
\q2 and all the regions of Philistia?
\q1 Will you repay me?
\q2 And if you repay me,
\q2 I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
\q1
\v 5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
\q2 and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
\q2
\v 6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
\q2 that you may remove them far from their border.
\q1
\v 7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
\q2 and will return your repayment on your own head;
\q1
\v 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
\q2 and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
\q2 to a faraway nation,
\q2 for Yahweh has spoken it.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Proclaim this among the nations:
\q2 “Prepare for war!
\q2 Stir up the mighty men.
\q1 Let all the warriors draw near.
\q2 Let them come up.
\v 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
\q2 and your pruning hooks into spears.
\q2 Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
\q1
\v 11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
\q2 and gather yourselves together.”
\q1 Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 “Let the nations arouse themselves,
\q2 and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
\q2 for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
\q1
\v 13 Put in the sickle;
\q2 for the harvest is ripe.
\q2 Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
\q2 the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
\q1
\v 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
\q2 For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
\q1
\v 15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
\q2 and the stars withdraw their shining.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,
\q2 and thunder from Jerusalem;
\q2 and the heavens and the earth will shake;
\q2 but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
\q2 and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
\q1
\v 17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
\q2 dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
\q1 Then Jerusalem will be holy,
\q2 and no strangers will pass through her any more.
\q1
\v 18 It will happen in that day,
\q2 that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
\q2 the hills will flow with milk,
\q2 all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters,
\q2 and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house,
\q2 and will water the valley of Shittim.
\q1
\v 19 Egypt will be a desolation,
\q2 and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
\q2 for the violence done to the children of Judah,
\q2 because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
\q1
\v 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,
\q2 and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
\q1
\v 21 I will cleanse their blood,
\q2 that I have not cleansed:
\q2 for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”


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\toc1 The Third Book of Moses, Commonly Called Leviticus
\toc2 Leviticus
\toc3 Lev
\mt2 The Third Book of Moses,
\mt3 Commonly Called
\mt1 Leviticus


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\v 1 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.
\p
\v 3 “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
\v 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
\v 5 He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 6 He shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.
\v 7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;
\v 8 and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
\v 9 but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\v 10 “‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.
\v 11 He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\v 12 He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
\v 13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 “‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
\v 15 The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
\v 16 and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.
\v 17 He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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\v 1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
\v 2 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
\p
\v 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying,
\q1 ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
\q2 and before all the people I will be glorified.’”
\p Aaron held his peace.
\v 4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
\v 5 So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.
\p
\v 6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
\v 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses.
\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron,
\v 9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
\v 10 You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
\v 11 You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
\p
\v 12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
\v 13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I am commanded.
\v 14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
\v 15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”
\p
\v 16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold,\f + \fr 10:16 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
\v 17 “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
\v 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
\p
\v 19 Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”
\p
\v 20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
\v 3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
\p
\v 4 “‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\v 5 The hyrax,\f + \fr 11:5 \ft or rock badger, or cony\f* because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\v 6 The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.
\v 7 The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.
\v 8 You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
\p
\v 9 “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
\v 10 All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
\v 11 and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.
\v 12 Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is an abomination to you.
\p
\v 13 “‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
\v 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite,
\v 15 any kind of raven,
\v 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
\v 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
\v 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
\v 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
\p
\v 20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
\v 21 Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.
\v 22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
\v 23 But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.
\p
\v 24 “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 26 “‘Every animal which has a split hoof that isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
\v 27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
\p
\v 29 “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
\v 30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
\v 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 32 Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
\v 33 Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.
\v 34 All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
\v 35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
\v 36 Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
\v 37 If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
\v 38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
\p
\v 39 “‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 41 “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
\v 42 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
\v 43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.
\v 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
\v 45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
\p
\v 46 “‘This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
\v 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
\v 3 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
\v 4 She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
\v 5 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
\p
\v 6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.
\v 7 He shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
\p “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
\v 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 2 “When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
\v 3 The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.
\v 4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
\v 5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
\v 6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
\v 7 But if the scab spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
\v 8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
\p
\v 9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
\v 10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
\v 11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is already unclean.
\p
\v 12 “If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,
\v 13 then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
\v 14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
\v 15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
\v 16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.
\v 17 The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
\p
\v 18 “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
\v 19 and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.
\v 20 The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
\v 21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
\v 22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
\v 23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
\p
\v 24 “Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,
\v 25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
\v 26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.
\v 27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
\v 28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.
\p
\v 29 “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
\v 30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
\v 31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.
\v 32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,
\v 33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch seven more days.
\v 34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.
\v 35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
\v 36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
\v 37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
\p
\v 38 “When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots,
\v 39 then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.
\p
\v 40 “If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
\v 41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
\v 42 But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead.
\v 43 Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
\v 44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
\p
\v 45 “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’
\v 46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
\p
\v 47 “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
\v 48 whether it is in warp or woof;\f + \fr 13:48 \ft warp and woof are the vertical and horizontal threads in woven cloth\f* of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather;
\v 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
\v 50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.
\v 51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
\v 52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
\p
\v 53 “If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
\v 54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven more days.
\v 55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
\v 56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof;
\v 57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
\v 58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”
\p
\v 59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.


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\c 14
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\p
\v 2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,
\v 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
\v 4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
\v 5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
\v 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
\v 7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
\p
\v 8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
\v 9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
\p
\v 10 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 14:10 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log\f + \fr 14:10 \ft a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces\f* of oil.
\v 11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\v 13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
\v 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
\v 15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
\v 16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
\v 17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
\v 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
\p
\v 19 “The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
\v 20 then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
\p
\v 21 “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 14:21 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log\f + \fr 14:21 \ft a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces\f* of oil;
\v 22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
\p
\v 23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
\v 24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\v 25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
\v 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
\v 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
\v 28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
\v 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
\v 30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford,
\v 31 of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.”
\p
\v 32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
\p
\v 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 34 “When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
\v 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’
\v 36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
\v 37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall,
\v 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
\v 39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
\v 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
\v 41 He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
\v 42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
\p
\v 43 “If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered,
\v 44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
\v 45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
\p
\v 46 “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
\p
\v 48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
\v 49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
\v 50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
\v 51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
\v 52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
\v 53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
\p
\v 54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
\v 55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
\v 56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
\v 57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean.
\p This is the law of leprosy.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
\v 3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
\p
\v 4 “‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.
\v 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\v 6 He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
\v 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 11 “‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
\p
\v 13 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
\p
\v 14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
\v 15 The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
\p
\v 16 “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\v 17 Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
\v 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 19 “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
\v 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\v 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\v 23 If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.
\p
\v 25 “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.
\v 26 Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
\v 27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 28 “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
\v 29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 30 The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
\p
\v 31 “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”
\p
\v 32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;
\v 33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;
\v 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
\p
\v 3 “Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
\v 4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
\v 5 He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
\p
\v 6 “Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
\v 7 He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 8 Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
\v 9 Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.
\v 10 But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
\p
\v 11 “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
\v 12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.
\v 13 He shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die.
\v 14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
\p
\v 15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
\v 16 He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.
\v 17 No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
\p
\v 18 “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.
\v 19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
\p
\v 20 “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
\v 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.
\v 22 The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
\p
\v 23 “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.
\v 24 Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
\v 25 The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
\p
\v 26 “He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
\v 27 The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
\v 28 He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
\p
\v 29 “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
\v 30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.
\v 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
\v 32 The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
\v 33 Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
\p
\v 34 “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”
\p It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:
\v 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
\v 4 and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
\v 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
\v 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’
\p
\v 8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
\v 9 and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man shall be cut off from his people.
\p
\v 10 “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
\v 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
\v 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”
\p
\v 13 “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
\v 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
\p
\v 15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.
\v 16 But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.
\v 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
\v 4 You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
\v 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 6 “‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
\p
\v 8 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
\p
\v 9 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
\p
\v 10 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness.
\p
\v 11 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
\p
\v 12 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
\p
\v 13 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
\p
\v 14 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.
\p
\v 15 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
\p
\v 16 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
\p
\v 17 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is wickedness.
\p
\v 18 “‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
\p
\v 19 “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
\p
\v 20 “‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
\p
\v 21 “‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 22 “‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
\p
\v 23 “‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
\p
\v 24 “‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
\v 25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
\v 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
\v 27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
\v 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
\p
\v 29 “‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
\v 30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
\p
\v 3 “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 4 “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 5 “‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
\v 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
\v 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
\v 8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
\p
\v 9 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
\v 10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 11 “‘You shall not steal.
\p “‘You shall not lie.
\p “‘You shall not deceive one another.
\p
\v 12 “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 13 “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him.
\p “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
\p
\v 14 “‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
\p
\v 16 “‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people.
\p “‘You shall not endanger the life\f + \fr 19:16 \ft literally, “blood”\f* of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 17 “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
\p
\v 18 “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 19 “‘You shall keep my statutes.
\p “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals.
\p “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
\p “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
\p
\v 20 “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
\v 21 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
\v 22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
\p
\v 23 “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden.\f + \fr 19:23 \ft literally, “uncircumcised”\f* For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
\v 24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
\v 25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
\p
\v 27 “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
\p
\v 28 “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 29 “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
\p
\v 30 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 31 “‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 32 “‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 33 “‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
\v 34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 35 “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
\v 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah,\f + \fr 19:36 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* and a just hin.\f + \fr 19:36 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 37 “‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”


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\v 1 “‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
\v 2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\v 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
\v 5 If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
\v 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
\v 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
\v 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
\v 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\v 11 “‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
\v 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God\f + \fr 2:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
\p
\v 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.
\v 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
\v 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.


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\c 20
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring\f + \fr 20:2 \ft or, seed\f* to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.
\v 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
\v 4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,
\v 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
\p
\v 6 “‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
\p
\v 7 “‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.
\v 8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
\p
\v 9 “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
\p
\v 10 “‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 11 “‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\v 12 “‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\v 13 “‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
\p
\v 14 “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
\p
\v 15 “‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
\p
\v 16 “‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
\p
\v 17 “‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.
\p
\v 18 “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
\p
\v 19 “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.
\v 20 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
\p
\v 21 “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
\p
\v 22 “‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
\v 23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
\v 24 But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
\p
\v 25 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
\v 26 You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
\p
\v 27 “‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people,
\v 2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
\v 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
\v 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
\p
\v 5 “‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.
\v 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
\p
\v 7 “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
\v 8 Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
\p
\v 9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
\p
\v 10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.
\v 11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.
\v 12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 13 “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
\v 14 He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.
\v 15 He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 17 “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
\v 18 For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
\v 19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
\v 20 or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
\v 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
\v 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
\v 23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
\p
\v 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 3 “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 4 “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,
\v 5 or whoever touches any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness he has—
\v 6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.
\v 7 When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.
\v 8 He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 “‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
\p
\v 10 “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
\v 11 But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat of his bread.
\v 12 If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
\v 13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
\p
\v 14 “‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.
\v 15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
\v 16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows or any of their free will offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering:
\v 19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
\v 20 But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
\v 21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
\v 22 You shall not offer what is blind, is injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.
\v 23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
\v 24 You must not offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.
\v 25 You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”
\p
\v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 27 “When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 28 Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
\p
\v 29 “When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
\v 30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 31 “Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
\v 32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
\v 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
\p
\v 3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
\p
\v 4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
\v 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
\v 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
\v 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\v 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
\v 11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
\v 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\v 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 23:13 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.\f + \fr 23:13 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f*
\v 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\p
\v 15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
\v 16 The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
\v 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 23:17 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
\v 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
\v 19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
\v 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
\v 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
\p
\v 22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
\v 25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
\v 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.
\v 30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
\v 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
\v 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
\p
\v 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths\f + \fr 23:34 \ft or, feast of tents, or Succoth\f* for seven days to Yahweh.
\v 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
\v 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
\p
\v 37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—
\v 38 in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
\p
\v 39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
\v 40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
\v 41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
\v 42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters\f + \fr 23:42 \ft or, booths\f* for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,\f + \fr 23:42 \ft or, booths\f*
\v 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters\f + \fr 23:43 \ft or, booths\f* when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\v 44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.


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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
\v 3 Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
\v 4 He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.
\p
\v 5 “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 24:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* shall be in one cake.
\v 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
\v 7 You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.
\v 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.”
\p
\v 10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
\v 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
\v 12 They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.
\v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 14 “Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
\v 15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
\v 16 He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.
\p
\v 17 “‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
\v 18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.
\v 19 If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:
\v 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured someone.
\v 21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
\v 22 You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\v 23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
\v 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
\v 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
\v 5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
\v 6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
\v 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
\p
\v 8 “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
\v 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
\v 10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
\v 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
\v 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
\p
\v 13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
\p
\v 14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
\v 15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
\v 16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
\v 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
\v 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
\v 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
\v 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
\v 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
\p
\v 23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
\v 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
\p
\v 25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
\v 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
\v 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
\v 28 But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
\p
\v 29 “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
\v 30 If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
\v 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
\p
\v 32 “‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.
\v 33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
\v 34 But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
\p
\v 35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
\v 36 Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
\v 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
\v 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
\p
\v 39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
\v 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
\v 41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
\v 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
\v 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
\p
\v 44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
\v 45 Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
\v 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
\p
\v 47 “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
\v 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
\v 49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
\v 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
\v 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
\v 52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
\v 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
\v 54 If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
\v 55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.


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\v 1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
\p
\v 2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
\p
\v 3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
\v 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
\v 5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
\p
\v 6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
\v 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
\v 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
\p
\v 9 “‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
\v 10 You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
\v 11 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
\v 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
\v 13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.
\p
\v 14 “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,
\v 15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
\v 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
\v 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
\p
\v 18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
\v 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
\v 20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
\p
\v 21 “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
\v 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
\p
\v 23 “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,
\v 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
\v 25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
\v 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
\p
\v 27 “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
\v 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
\v 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
\v 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
\v 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
\v 32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.
\v 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
\v 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
\v 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
\p
\v 36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
\v 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
\v 38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
\v 39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
\p
\v 40 “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
\v 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
\v 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
\v 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
\v 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
\v 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,
\v 3 your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel\f + \fr 27:3 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary.
\v 4 If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
\v 5 If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
\v 6 If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
\v 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
\v 8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.
\p
\v 9 “‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.
\v 10 He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.
\v 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;
\v 12 and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be.
\v 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
\p
\v 14 “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand.
\v 15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
\p
\v 16 “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer \f + \fr 27:16 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels\f + \fr 27:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver.
\v 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
\v 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
\v 19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
\v 20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
\v 21 but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.
\p
\v 22 “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
\v 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
\v 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
\v 25 All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs\f + \fr 27:25 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f* to the shekel.\f + \fr 27:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f*
\p
\v 26 “‘However the firstborn among animals, which belongs to Yahweh as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh’s.
\v 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
\p
\v 28 “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.
\p
\v 29 “‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 30 “‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.
\v 31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.
\v 32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
\v 33 He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”
\p
\v 34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.


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\v 1 “‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
\v 2 He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
\v 3 He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\v 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\v 5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p
\v 6 “‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.
\v 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh;
\v 8 and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\v 9 He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
\v 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\v 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\v 12 “‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh.
\v 13 He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
\v 14 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\v 15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
\v 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s.
\p
\v 17 “‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
\v 3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.
\v 4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
\v 5 The anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
\v 6 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
\v 7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 8 He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering from it: the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
\v 9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove,
\v 10 as it is removed from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
\v 11 He shall carry the bull’s skin, all its meat, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung
\v 12 —all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
\p
\v 13 “‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
\v 14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
\v 15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
\v 16 The anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting.
\v 17 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
\v 18 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 19 All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.
\v 20 Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
\v 21 He shall carry the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
\p
\v 22 “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
\v 23 if his sin in which he has sinned is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without defect.
\v 24 He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
\v 25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
\v 26 All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\v 27 “‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
\v 28 if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without defect, for his sin which he has sinned.
\v 29 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
\v 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
\v 31 All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\v 32 “‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
\v 33 He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
\v 34 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
\v 35 He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.


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\v 1 “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
\p
\v 2 “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
\p
\v 3 “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
\p
\v 4 “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.
\v 5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;
\v 6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
\p
\v 7 “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
\v 8 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
\v 9 He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
\v 10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
\p
\v 11 “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 5:11 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
\v 12 He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.
\v 13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 15 “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel\f + \fr 5:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
\v 16 He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong regarding the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
\p
\v 17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
\v 18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.
\v 19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
\v 3 or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—
\v 4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
\v 5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.
\v 6 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
\v 7 The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”
\p
\v 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 9 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
\v 10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
\v 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
\v 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.
\v 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.
\p
\v 14 “‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
\v 15 He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to Yahweh.
\v 16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.
\v 18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’”
\p
\v 19 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 20 “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 6:20 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
\v 21 It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh.
\v 23 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
\p
\v 24 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
\v 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 27 Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
\v 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
\v 29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.
\v 30 No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.


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\c 7
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\v 1 “‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy.
\v 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.
\v 3 He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
\v 4 and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys;
\v 5 and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.
\v 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
\p
\v 7 “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
\v 8 The priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
\v 9 Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
\v 10 Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
\p
\v 11 “‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh:
\v 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.
\v 13 He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.
\v 14 Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
\v 15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
\p
\v 16 “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten,
\v 17 but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
\v 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
\p
\v 19 “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;
\v 20 but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
\v 21 When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 23 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
\v 24 The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.
\v 25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
\v 26 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
\v 27 Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\v 28 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
\v 30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\v 31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
\v 32 The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
\v 33 He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
\v 34 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’”
\p
\v 35 This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest’s office;
\v 36 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
\v 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings
\v 38 which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.


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\c 8
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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
\v 3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
\p
\v 4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.”
\v 6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
\v 7 He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.
\v 8 He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.
\v 9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
\v 11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
\v 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
\v 13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
\v 15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
\v 16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.
\v 17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
\v 19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
\v 20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
\v 21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
\v 23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
\v 24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.
\v 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
\v 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
\v 27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\v 28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
\p
\v 31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
\v 32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
\v 33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
\v 34 What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
\v 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”
\v 36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.


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\v 1 On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
\v 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.
\v 3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering;
\v 4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.’”
\p
\v 5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came near and stood before Yahweh.
\v 6 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do; and Yahweh’s glory shall appear to you.”
\v 7 Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”
\p
\v 8 So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
\v 9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;
\v 10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 11 The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
\v 12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
\v 13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the altar.
\v 14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
\v 15 He presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
\v 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
\v 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.
\v 18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;
\v 19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver;
\v 20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
\v 21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
\v 22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
\p
\v 23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people.
\v 24 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.


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\v 1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
\v 2 He said:
\q1 “Yahweh\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* will roar from Zion,
\q2 and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
\q1 and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn,
\q2 and the top of Carmel will wither.”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
\q1
\v 4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
\q2 and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
\q1
\v 5 I will break the bar of Damascus,
\q2 and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
\q2 and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden;
\q2 and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,”
\p says Yahweh.
\p
\v 6 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they carried away captive the whole community,
\q2 to deliver them up to Edom;
\q1
\v 7 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
\q2 and it will devour its palaces.
\q1
\v 8 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
\q2 and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
\q1 and I will turn my hand against Ekron;
\q2 and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”
\p says the Lord\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they delivered up the whole community to Edom,
\q2 and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;
\q1
\v 10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
\q2 and it will devour its palaces.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because he pursued his brother with the sword,
\q2 and cast off all pity,
\q2 and his anger raged continually,
\q2 and he kept his wrath forever;
\q1
\v 12 but I will send a fire on Teman,
\q2 and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,
\q2 that they may enlarge their border.
\q1
\v 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,
\q2 and it will devour its palaces,
\q2 with shouting in the day of battle,
\q2 with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
\q1
\v 15 and their king will go into captivity,
\q2 he and his princes together,”
\p says Yahweh.


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
\q1
\v 2 but I will send a fire on Moab,
\q2 and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
\q2 and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
\q1
\v 3 and I will cut off the judge from among them,
\q2 and will kill all its princes with him,”
\p says Yahweh.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they have rejected Yahweh’s law,
\q2 and have not kept his statutes,
\q2 and their lies have led them astray,
\q2 after which their fathers walked;
\q1
\v 5 but I will send a fire on Judah,
\q2 and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh says:
\q1 “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,
\q2 I will not turn away its punishment;
\q2 because they have sold the righteous for silver,
\q2 and the needy for a pair of sandals;
\q2
\v 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
\q2 and deny justice to the oppressed;
\q2 and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
\q2
\v 8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
\q2 and in the house of their God\f + \fr 2:8 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
\q1
\v 9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
\q2 whose height was like the height of the cedars,
\q2 and he was strong as the oaks;
\q2 yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
\q2 and his roots from beneath.
\q1
\v 10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 and led you forty years in the wilderness,
\q2 to possess the land of the Amorite.
\q1
\v 11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
\q2 and some of your young men for Nazirites.
\q1 Isn’t this true,
\q2 you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
\q2 and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
\q1
\v 13 Behold,\f + \fr 2:13 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will crush you in your place,
\q2 as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
\q1
\v 14 Flight will perish from the swift;
\q2 and the strong won’t strengthen his force;
\q2 neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
\q2
\v 15 neither shall he stand who handles the bow;
\q2 and he who is swift of foot won’t escape;
\q2 neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
\q1
\v 16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”
\p says Yahweh.


file: ./bibles/Sample/30/3/100000001
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\c 3
\p
\v 1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
\q1
\v 2 “I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth.
\q2 Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
\q1
\v 3 Do two walk together,
\q2 unless they have agreed?
\q1
\v 4 Will a lion roar in the thicket,
\q2 when he has no prey?
\q1 Does a young lion cry out of his den,
\q2 if he has caught nothing?
\q1
\v 5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
\q2 where no snare is set for him?
\q1 Does a snare spring up from the ground,
\q2 when there is nothing to catch?
\q1
\v 6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
\q2 without the people being afraid?
\q1 Does evil happen to a city,
\q2 and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
\q1
\v 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,
\q2 unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
\q1
\v 8 The lion has roared.
\q2 Who will not fear?
\q1 The Lord Yahweh has spoken.
\q2 Who can but prophesy?
\q1
\v 9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
\q2 and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,
\q1 and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,
\q2 and see what unrest is in her,
\q2 and what oppression is among them.”
\q1
\v 10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
\p
\v 11 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “An adversary will overrun the land;
\q2 and he will pull down your strongholds,
\q2 and your fortresses will be plundered.”
\p
\v 12 Yahweh says:
\q1 “As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,
\q2 or a piece of an ear,
\q2 so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,
\q2 and on the silken cushions of a bed.”
\p
\v 13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
\q1
\v 14 “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,
\q2 I will also visit the altars of Bethel;
\q2 and the horns of the altar will be cut off,
\q2 and fall to the ground.
\q1
\v 15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house;
\q2 and the houses of ivory will perish,
\q2 and the great houses will have an end,”
\p says Yahweh.


file: ./bibles/Sample/30/4/100000001
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
\q1
\v 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold,
\q2 “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks,
\q2 and the last of you with fish hooks.
\q1
\v 3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
\q2 everyone straight before her;
\q2 and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 “Go to Bethel, and sin;
\q2 to Gilgal, and sin more.
\q1 Bring your sacrifices every morning,
\q2 your tithes every three days,
\q2
\v 5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
\q2 and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them:
\q2 for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
\q2 and lack of bread in every town;
\q2 yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 “I also have withheld the rain from you,
\q2 when there were yet three months to the harvest;
\q2 and I caused it to rain on one city,
\q2 and caused it not to rain on another city.
\q1 One place was rained on,
\q2 and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
\q1
\v 8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,
\q2 and were not satisfied:
\q2 yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;
\q2 and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
\q2 yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 10 “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
\q2 I have slain your young men with the sword,
\q2 and have carried away your horses;
\q2 and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
\q2 yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 11 “I have overthrown some of you,
\q2 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
\q2 and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;
\q2 yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel;
\q2 because I will do this to you,
\q2 prepare to meet your God, Israel.
\q1
\v 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains,
\q2 and creates the wind,
\q2 and declares to man what is his thought;
\q2 who makes the morning darkness,
\q2 and treads on the high places of the earth:
\q2 Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/30/5/100000001
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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
\q1
\v 2 “The virgin of Israel has fallen;
\q2 She shall rise no more.
\q1 She is cast down on her land;
\q2 there is no one to raise her up.”
\p
\v 3 For the Lord Yahweh says:
\q1 “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,
\q2 and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
\p
\v 4 For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
\q1 “Seek me, and you will live;
\q1
\v 5 but don’t seek Bethel,
\q2 nor enter into Gilgal,
\q2 and don’t pass to Beersheba:
\q1 for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
\q2 and Bethel shall come to nothing.
\q1
\v 6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live;
\q2 lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
\q2 and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
\q1
\v 7 You who turn justice to wormwood,
\q2 and cast down righteousness to the earth:
\q1
\v 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,
\q2 and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
\q2 and makes the day dark with night;
\q2 who calls for the waters of the sea,
\q2 and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
\q1
\v 9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong,
\q2 so that destruction comes on the fortress.
\q1
\v 10 They hate him who reproves in the gate,
\q2 and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
\q1
\v 11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor,
\q2 and take taxes from him of wheat:
\q2 You have built houses of cut stone,
\q2 but you will not dwell in them.
\q1 You have planted pleasant vineyards,
\q2 but you shall not drink their wine.
\q1
\v 12 For I know how many your offenses,
\q2 and how great are your sins—
\q2 you who afflict the just,
\q2 who take a bribe,
\q2 and who turn away the needy in the courts.
\q1
\v 13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,
\q2 for it is an evil time.
\q1
\v 14 Seek good, and not evil,
\q2 that you may live;
\q2 and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
\q2 as you say.
\q1
\v 15 Hate evil, love good,
\q2 and establish justice in the courts.
\q2 It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
\p
\v 16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
\q1 “Wailing will be in all the wide ways;
\q2 and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
\q2 and they will call the farmer to mourning,
\q2 and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
\q1
\v 17 In all vineyards there will be wailing;
\q2 for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\v 18 “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!
\q2 Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
\q1 It is darkness,
\q2 and not light.
\q1
\v 19 As if a man fled from a lion,
\q2 and a bear met him;
\q1 Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,
\q2 and a snake bit him.
\q1
\v 20 Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light?
\q2 Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
\q1
\v 21 I hate, I despise your feasts,
\q2 and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
\q1
\v 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,
\q2 I will not accept them;
\q2 neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
\q1
\v 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!
\q2 I will not listen to the music of your harps.
\q1
\v 24 But let justice roll on like rivers,
\q2 and righteousness like a mighty stream.
\p
\v 25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
\v 26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
\v 27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
\q2 and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria,
\q2 the notable men of the chief of the nations,
\q2 to whom the house of Israel come!
\q1
\v 2 Go to Calneh, and see;
\q2 and from there go to Hamath the great;
\q2 then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
\q1 are they better than these kingdoms?
\q2 or is their border greater than your border?
\q1
\v 3 Those who put far away the evil day,
\q2 and cause the seat of violence to come near;
\q2
\v 4 Who lie on beds of ivory,
\q2 and stretch themselves on their couches,
\q2 and eat the lambs out of the flock,
\q2 and the calves out of the middle of the stall;
\q2
\v 5 who strum on the strings of a harp;
\q2 who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
\q2
\v 6 who drink wine in bowls,
\q2 and anoint themselves with the best oils;
\q2 but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
\q1
\v 7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive;
\q2 and the feasting and lounging will end.
\q1
\v 8 “The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies:
\q2 “I abhor the pride of Jacob,
\q2 and detest his fortresses.
\q2 Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
\q1
\v 9 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house,
\q2 that they shall die.
\p
\v 10 “When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
\b
\q1
\v 11 “For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces,
\q2 and the little house into bits.
\q1
\v 12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
\q2 Does one plow there with oxen?
\q1 But you have turned justice into poison,
\q2 and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
\q1
\v 13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say,
\q2 ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
\q1
\v 14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,”
\q2 says Yahweh, the God of Armies;
\q2 “and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
\v 2 When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
\v 5 Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 7 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
\v 8 Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
\p I said, “A plumb line.”
\p Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
\v 9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
\p
\v 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
\v 11 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
\p
\v 12 Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
\v 13 but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
\p
\v 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
\v 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
\v 16 Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
\v 17 Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”


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\c 8
\p
\v 1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
\p
\v 2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
\p I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
\p Then Yahweh said to me,
\q1 “The end has come on my people Israel.
\q2 I will not again pass by them any more.
\q1
\v 3 The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\q2 “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
\q1
\v 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
\q2 and cause the poor of the land to fail,
\q2
\v 5 Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
\q2 And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
\q2 making the ephah\f + \fr 8:5 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel \f* small, and the shekel\f + \fr 8:5 \ft a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* large,
\q2 and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
\q1
\v 6 that we may buy the poor for silver,
\q2 and the needy for a pair of sandals,
\q2 and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
\q2 “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
\q1
\v 8 Won’t the land tremble for this,
\q2 and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
\q1 Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
\q2 and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
\q1
\v 9 It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
\q2 and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
\q1
\v 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,
\q2 and all your songs into lamentation;
\q1 and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
\q2 and baldness on every head.
\q1 I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
\q2 and its end like a bitter day.
\q1
\v 11 Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will send a famine in the land,
\q2 not a famine of bread,
\q2 nor a thirst for water,
\q2 but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
\q1
\v 12 They will wander from sea to sea,
\q2 and from the north even to the east;
\q2 they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,
\q2 and will not find it.
\q1
\v 13 In that day the beautiful virgins
\q2 and the young men will faint for thirst.
\q1
\v 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
\q2 and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’
\q2 and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’
\q2 they will fall, and never rise up again.”


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
\v 2 Though they dig into Sheol,\f + \fr 9:2 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
\v 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
\v 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
\v 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
\v 6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
\v 7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
\v 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
\v 9 “For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
\v 10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’
\v 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
\v 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
\q1
\v 13 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
\q2 and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
\q2 and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
\q2 and flow from the hills.
\q1
\v 14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
\q2 and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
\q2 and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
\q1 They shall also make gardens,
\q2 and eat their fruit.
\q1
\v 15 I will plant them on their land,
\q2 and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,”
\q2 says Yahweh your God.


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\toc1 The Book of Obadiah
\toc2 Obadiah
\toc3 Oba
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Obadiah


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\c 1
\p
\v 1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
\v 2 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 made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
\v 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
\v 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
\v 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
\v 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
\v 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”
\p
\v 8 “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
\v 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
\v 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
\v 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
\v 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.
\v 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
\v 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
\v 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
\v 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
\v 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
\v 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
\p
\v 19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
\v 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
\v 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.


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\h Jonah
\toc1 The Book of Jonah
\toc2 Jonah
\toc3 Jon
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Jonah


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\p
\v 1 Now Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
\v 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
\p
\v 3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
\v 4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
\v 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
\v 6 So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God!\f + \fr 1:6 \ft or, gods\f* Maybe your God\f + \fr 1:6 \ft or, gods \f* will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
\p
\v 7 They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
\v 8 Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”
\p
\v 9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
\p
\v 10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
\v 11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
\v 12 He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
\p
\v 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
\v 14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
\v 15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
\v 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
\p
\v 17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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\v 1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
\v 2 He said,
\q1 “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
\q2 He answered me.
\q1 Out of the belly of Sheol\f + \fr 2:2 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* I cried.
\q2 You heard my voice.
\q1
\v 3 For you threw me into the depths,
\q2 in the heart of the seas.
\q1 The flood was all around me.
\q2 All your waves and your billows passed over me.
\q1
\v 4 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
\q2 yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
\q1
\v 5 The waters surrounded me,
\q2 even to the soul.
\q1 The deep was around me.
\q2 The weeds were wrapped around my head.
\q1
\v 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
\q2 The earth barred me in forever:
\q2 yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
\q2 My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
\q1
\v 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
\q2
\v 9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
\q2 I will pay that which I have vowed.
\q1 Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
\p
\v 10 Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
\v 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
\p
\v 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
\v 4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
\p
\v 5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
\v 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
\v 7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
\v 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
\v 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
\p
\v 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.


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\p
\v 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
\v 2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
\v 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
\p
\v 4 Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
\p
\v 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
\v 6 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
\v 7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
\v 8 When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
\p
\v 9 God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
\p He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
\p
\v 10 Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
\v 11 Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”


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\ide UTF-8
\h Micah
\toc1 The Book of Micah
\toc2 Micah
\toc3 Mic
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Micah


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\v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 2 Hear, you peoples, all of you.
\q2 Listen, O earth, and all that is therein:
\q1 and let the Lord\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh be witness against you,
\q2 the Lord from his holy temple.
\q1
\v 3 For, behold,\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* Yahweh comes out of his place,
\q2 and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
\q1
\v 4 The mountains melt under him,
\q2 and the valleys split apart,
\q2 like wax before the fire,
\q2 like waters that are poured down a steep place.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “All this is for the disobedience of Jacob,
\q2 and for the sins of the house of Israel.
\q1 What is the disobedience of Jacob?
\q2 Isn’t it Samaria?
\q1 And what are the high places of Judah?
\q2 Aren’t they Jerusalem?
\q1
\v 6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field,
\q2 like places for planting vineyards;
\q1 and I will pour down its stones into the valley,
\q2 and I will uncover its foundations.
\q1
\v 7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces,
\q2 and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire,
\q2 and all her images I will destroy;
\q1 for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them,
\q2 and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”
\b
\q1
\v 8 For this I will lament and wail;
\q2 I will go stripped and naked;
\q2 I will howl like the jackals,
\q2 and moan like the daughters of owls.
\q1
\v 9 For her wounds are incurable;
\q2 for it has come even to Judah.
\q1 It reaches to the gate of my people,
\q2 even to Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 10 Don’t tell it in Gath.
\q2 Don’t weep at all.
\q2 At Beth Ophrah\f + \fr 1:10 \ft Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”\f* I have rolled myself in the dust.
\q1
\v 11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame.
\q2 The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
\q2 The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
\q1
\v 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good,
\q2 because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 13 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish.
\q2 She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion;
\q2 For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
\q1
\v 14 Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath.
\q2 The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
\q1
\v 15 I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah.
\q2 He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
\q1
\v 16 Shave your heads,
\q2 and cut off your hair for the children of your delight.
\q1 Enlarge your baldness like the vulture;
\q2 for they have gone into captivity from you!
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity
\q2 and work evil on their beds!
\q1 When the morning is light, they practice it,
\q2 because it is in the power of their hand.
\q1
\v 2 They covet fields, and seize them;
\q2 and houses, and take them away:
\q2 and they oppress a man and his house,
\q2 even a man and his heritage.
\q1
\v 3 Therefore Yahweh says:
\q1 “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,
\q2 from which you will not remove your necks,
\q2 neither will you walk haughtily;
\q2 for it is an evil time.
\q1
\v 4 In that day they will take up a parable against you,
\q2 and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,
\q2 ‘We are utterly ruined!
\q2 My people’s possession is divided up.
\q2 Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
\q1
\v 5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
\q1
\v 6 “Don’t prophesy!”
\q2 They prophesy.
\q1 “Don’t prophesy about these things.
\q2 Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
\q1
\v 7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob:
\q2 “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry?
\q2 Are these his doings?
\q2 Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
\q1
\v 8 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy.
\q2 You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
\q1
\v 9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses;
\q2 from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
\q1
\v 10 Arise, and depart!
\q2 For this is not your resting place,
\q2 because of uncleanness that destroys,
\q2 even with a grievous destruction.
\q1
\v 11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies:
\q2 “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;”
\q2 he would be the prophet of this people.
\q1
\v 12 I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you;
\q2 I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
\q1 I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
\q2 as a flock in the middle of their pasture;
\q2 they will swarm with people.
\q1
\v 13 He who breaks open the way goes up before them.
\q2 They break through the gate, and go out.
\q2 And their king passes on before them,
\q2 with Yahweh at their head.


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\p
\v 1 I said,
\q1 “Please listen, you heads of Jacob,
\q2 and rulers of the house of Israel:
\q2 Isn’t it for you to know justice?
\q1
\v 2 You who hate the good,
\q2 and love the evil;
\q2 who tear off their skin,
\q2 and their flesh from off their bones;
\q2
\v 3 who also eat the flesh of my people,
\q2 and peel their skin from off them,
\q2 and break their bones,
\q2 and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
\q2 and as meat within the cauldron.
\q1
\v 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh,
\q2 but he will not answer them.
\q1 Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
\q2 because they made their deeds evil.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
\q1
\v 6 “Therefore night is over you, with no vision,
\q2 and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;
\q2 and the sun will go down on the prophets,
\q2 and the day will be black over them.
\q1
\v 7 The seers shall be disappointed,
\q2 and the diviners confounded.
\q1 Yes, they shall all cover their lips;
\q2 for there is no answer from God.”\f + \fr 3:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\v 8 But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,
\q2 and of judgment, and of might,
\q2 to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
\q2 and to Israel his sin.
\q1
\v 9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,
\q2 and rulers of the house of Israel,
\q2 who abhor justice,
\q2 and pervert all equity.
\q1
\v 10 They build up Zion with blood,
\q2 and Jerusalem with iniquity.
\q1
\v 11 Her leaders judge for bribes,
\q2 and her priests teach for a price,
\q2 and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:
\q1 yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
\q2 “Isn’t Yahweh among us?
\q2 No disaster will come on us.”
\q1
\v 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,
\q2 and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,
\q2 and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 But in the latter days,
\q2 it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains,
\q2 and it will be exalted above the hills;
\q2 and peoples will stream to it.
\q1
\v 2 Many nations will go and say,
\q2 “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
\q2 and to the house of the God of Jacob;
\q2 and he will teach us of his ways,
\q2 and we will walk in his paths.”
\q1 For the law will go out of Zion,
\q2 and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
\q1
\v 3 and he will judge between many peoples,
\q2 and will decide concerning strong nations afar off.
\q2 They will beat their swords into plowshares,
\q2 and their spears into pruning hooks.
\q1 Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
\q2 neither will they learn war any more.
\q1
\v 4 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
\q2 and no one will make them afraid:
\q2 For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
\v 5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods;
\q2 but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
\q1
\v 6 “In that day,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “I will assemble that which is lame,
\q2 and I will gather that which is driven away,
\q2 and that which I have afflicted;
\q2
\v 7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant,
\q2 and that which was cast far off a strong nation:
\q2 and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”
\q1
\v 8 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion,
\q2 to you it will come,
\q2 yes, the former dominion will come,
\q2 the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 9 Now why do you cry out aloud?
\q2 Is there no king in you?
\q2 Has your counselor perished,
\q2 that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?
\q1
\v 10 Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion,
\q2 like a woman in travail;
\q2 for now you will go out of the city,
\q2 and will dwell in the field,
\q2 and will come even to Babylon.
\q1 There you will be rescued.
\q2 There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
\q1
\v 11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say,
\q2 “Let her be defiled,
\q2 and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
\q1
\v 12 But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh,
\q2 neither do they understand his counsel;
\q2 for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
\q1
\v 13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion;
\q2 for I will make your horn iron,
\q2 and I will make your hoofs bronze;
\q1 and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
\q1 and I will devote their gain to Yahweh,
\q2 and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops,
\q2 daughter of troops.
\q1 He has laid siege against us.
\q2 They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
\q1
\v 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
\q2 being small among the clans of Judah,
\q2 out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel;
\q2 whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
\q1
\v 3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth.
\q2 Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
\q1
\v 4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh,
\q2 in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God:
\q2 and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\v 5 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,
\q2 and when he marches through our fortresses,
\q2 then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
\q2 and eight leaders of men.
\q1
\v 6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
\q2 and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
\q1 He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
\q2 when he invades our land,
\q2 and when he marches within our border.
\q1
\v 7 The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples,
\q2 like dew from Yahweh,
\q2 like showers on the grass,
\q2 that don’t wait for man,
\q2 nor wait for the sons of men.
\q1
\v 8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
\q2 among many peoples,
\q2 like a lion among the animals of the forest,
\q2 like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
\q2 who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces,
\q2 and there is no one to deliver.
\q1
\v 9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries,
\q2 and let all of your enemies be cut off.
\q1
\v 10 “It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh,
\q2 “that I will cut off your horses out from among you,
\q2 and will destroy your chariots.
\q1
\v 11 I will cut off the cities of your land,
\q2 and will tear down all your strongholds.
\q1
\v 12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand;
\q2 and you shall have no soothsayers.
\q1
\v 13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you;
\q2 and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
\q1
\v 14 I will uproot your Asherah poles out from among you;
\q2 and I will destroy your cities.
\q1
\v 15 I will execute vengeance in anger,
\q2 and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Listen now to what Yahweh says:
\q1 “Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
\q2 and let the hills hear what you have to say.
\q1
\v 2 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy,
\q2 and you enduring foundations of the earth;
\q2 for Yahweh has a controversy with his people,
\q2 and he will contend with Israel.
\q1
\v 3 My people, what have I done to you?
\q2 How have I burdened you?
\q2 Answer me!
\q1
\v 4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
\q2 I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
\q1
\v 5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,
\q2 and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,
\q2 that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 How shall I come before Yahweh,
\q2 and bow myself before the exalted God?
\q1 Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
\q2 with calves a year old?
\q1
\v 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?
\q2 With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
\q1 Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
\q2 The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
\q1
\v 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good.
\q2 What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,
\q2 to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
\b
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh’s voice calls to the city,
\q2 and wisdom sees your name:
\q1 “Listen to the rod,
\q2 and he who appointed it.
\q1
\v 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
\q2 and a short ephah\f + \fr 6:10 \ft An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.\f* that is accursed?
\q1
\v 11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,
\q2 and with a bag of deceitful weights?
\q1
\v 12 Her rich men are full of violence,
\q2 her inhabitants speak lies,
\q2 and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
\q1
\v 13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.
\q2 I have made you desolate because of your sins.
\q1
\v 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied.
\q2 Your humiliation will be within you.
\q2 You will store up, but not save;
\q2 and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
\q1
\v 15 You will sow, but won’t reap.
\q2 You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil;
\q2 and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
\q1
\v 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept,
\q2 and all the works of Ahab’s house.
\q2 You walk in their counsels,
\q2 that I may make you a ruin,
\q2 and her inhabitants a hissing;
\q2 And you will bear the reproach of my people.”
\b


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\c 7
\q1
\v 1 Misery is mine!
\q2 Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard:
\q2 There is no cluster of grapes to eat.
\q2 My soul desires to eat the early fig.
\q1
\v 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth,
\q2 and there is no one upright among men.
\q2 They all lie in wait for blood;
\q2 every man hunts his brother with a net.
\q1
\v 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently.
\q2 The ruler and judge ask for a bribe;
\q2 and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul.
\q2 Thus they conspire together.
\q1
\v 4 The best of them is like a brier.
\q2 The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.
\q1 The day of your watchmen,
\q2 even your visitation, has come;
\q2 now is the time of their confusion.
\q1
\v 5 Don’t trust in a neighbor.
\q2 Don’t put confidence in a friend.
\q2 With the woman lying in your embrace,
\q2 be careful of the words of your mouth!
\q1
\v 6 For the son dishonors the father,
\q2 the daughter rises up against her mother,
\q2 the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
\q2 a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
\q1
\v 7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh.
\q2 I will wait for the God of my salvation.
\q2 My God will hear me.
\q1
\v 8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
\q2 When I fall, I will arise.
\q2 When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
\q1
\v 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh,
\q2 because I have sinned against him,
\q2 until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me.
\q2 He will bring me out to the light.
\q2 I will see his righteousness.
\q1
\v 10 Then my enemy will see it,
\q2 and shame will cover her who said to me,
\q2 where is Yahweh your God?
\q1 Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame.
\q2 Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
\q1
\v 11 A day to build your walls—
\q2 In that day, he will extend your boundary.
\q1
\v 12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
\q2 and from Egypt even to the River,
\q2 and from sea to sea,
\q2 and mountain to mountain.
\q1
\v 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein,
\q2 for the fruit of their doings.
\q1
\v 14 Shepherd your people with your staff,
\q2 the flock of your heritage,
\q2 who dwell by themselves in a forest,
\q2 in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed;
\q2 in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
\q1
\v 15 “As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 I will show them marvelous things.”
\q1
\v 16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might.
\q2 They will lay their hand on their mouth.
\q2 Their ears will be deaf.
\q1
\v 17 They will lick the dust like a serpent.
\q2 Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens.
\q2 They will come with fear to Yahweh our God,
\q2 and will be afraid because of you.
\q1
\v 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
\q2 and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
\q1 He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
\q2 because he delights in loving kindness.
\q1
\v 19 He will again have compassion on us.
\q2 He will tread our iniquities under foot;
\q2 and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
\q1
\v 20 You will give truth to Jacob,
\q2 and mercy to Abraham,
\q2 as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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\v 1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
\v 2 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* is a jealous God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
\v 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
\v 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
\v 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
\v 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
\v 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
\v 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
\v 9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
\v 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
\v 11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
\v 12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
\v 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
\v 14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
\p
\v 15 Behold,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.


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\v 1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
\v 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
\v 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
\v 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
\v 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
\v 6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
\v 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
\v 8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
\v 9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
\v 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
\v 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
\v 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
\v 13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”


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\v 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
\v 2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
\v 3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
\v 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
\v 5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
\v 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
\v 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
\p
\v 8 Are you better than No-Amon,\f + \fr 3:8 \ft or, Thebes\f* who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
\v 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
\v 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
\v 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
\v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
\v 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
\v 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
\v 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
\v 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
\v 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
\v 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
\v 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?


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\v 1 The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
\v 2 Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
\v 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
\v 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
\p
\v 5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
\v 6 For, behold,\f + \fr 1:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
\v 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
\v 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
\v 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
\v 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
\v 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”
\p
\v 12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
\v 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
\v 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
\v 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
\v 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
\v 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?


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\v 1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
\p
\v 2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
\v 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
\v 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
\v 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol,\f + \fr 2:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f* and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
\v 6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
\v 7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
\v 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
\v 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
\v 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
\v 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
\v 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
\v 13 Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
\v 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
\p
\v 15 “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
\v 16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
\v 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
\p
\v 18 “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
\v 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
\v 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”


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\v 1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame.
\q2 I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh.
\q1 Renew your work in the middle of the years.
\q2 In the middle of the years make it known.
\q2 In wrath, you remember mercy.
\q1
\v 3 God came from Teman,
\q2 the Holy One from Mount Paran. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1 His glory covered the heavens,
\q2 and his praise filled the earth.
\q1
\v 4 His splendor is like the sunrise.
\q2 Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
\q1
\v 5 Plague went before him,
\q2 and pestilence followed his feet.
\q1
\v 6 He stood, and shook the earth.
\q2 He looked, and made the nations tremble.
\q2 The ancient mountains were crumbled.
\q2 The age-old hills collapsed.
\q2 His ways are eternal.
\q1
\v 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction.
\q2 The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
\q1
\v 8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers?
\q2 Was your anger against the rivers,
\q2 or your wrath against the sea,
\q2 that you rode on your horses,
\q2 on your chariots of salvation?
\q1
\v 9 You uncovered your bow.
\q2 You called for your sworn arrows. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1 You split the earth with rivers.
\q1
\v 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid.
\q2 The storm of waters passed by.
\q2 The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
\q1
\v 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky,
\q2 at the light of your arrows as they went,
\q2 at the shining of your glittering spear.
\q1
\v 12 You marched through the land in wrath.
\q2 You threshed the nations in anger.
\q1
\v 13 You went out for the salvation of your people,
\q2 for the salvation of your anointed.
\q1 You crushed the head of the land of wickedness.
\q2 You stripped them head to foot. \qs Selah.\qs*
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\q1
\v 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears.
\q2 They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
\q2 gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
\q1
\v 15 You trampled the sea with your horses,
\q2 churning mighty waters.
\q1
\v 16 I heard, and my body trembled.
\q2 My lips quivered at the voice.
\q1 Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place,
\q2 because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
\q2 for the coming up of the people who invade us.
\q1
\v 17 For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish,
\q2 nor fruit be in the vines;
\q2 the labor of the olive fails,
\q2 the fields yield no food;
\q2 the flocks are cut off from the fold,
\q2 and there is no herd in the stalls:
\q1
\v 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.
\q2 I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh, the Lord,\f + \fr 3:19 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* is my strength.
\q2 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
\q2 and enables me to go in high places.
\p For the music director, on my stringed instruments.


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\v 1 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
\v 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
\v 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
\v 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
\v 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
\v 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
\v 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord\f + \fr 1:7 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
\v 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
\v 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
\v 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
\v 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
\v 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
\v 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
\v 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
\v 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
\v 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
\v 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
\v 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.


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\v 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
\v 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
\v 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
\v 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
\v 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
\v 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
\v 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God,\f + \fr 2:7 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* will visit them, and restore them.
\v 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
\v 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
\v 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
\v 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
\v 12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
\v 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
\v 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
\v 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.


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\v 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
\v 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
\v 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
\v 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
\v 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
\v 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
\v 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
\v 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
\v 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
\v 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
\v 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
\v 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
\v 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
\p
\v 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
\v 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
\v 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
\v 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
\v 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
\v 19 Behold,\f + \fr 3:19 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
\v 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.


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\v 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
\v 2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”
\p
\v 3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
\v 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
\v 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
\v 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
\p
\v 7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
\v 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
\v 9 “You looked for much, and, behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
\v 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
\v 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
\p
\v 12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s\f + \fr 1:12 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
\p
\v 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
\v 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.


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\v 1 In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
\v 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
\v 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
\v 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 5 This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’
\v 6 For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
\v 7 and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
\p
\v 10 In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
\v 11 “Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
\v 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’”
\p The priests answered, “No.”
\p
\v 13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?”
\p The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
\p
\v 14 Then Haggai answered, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
\v 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
\v 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
\v 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.
\v 18 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
\v 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
\p
\v 20 Yahweh’s word came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
\v 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.
\v 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
\v 23 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”


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\v 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
\v 2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
\v 3 Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
\v 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
\v 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?
\p “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
\v 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
\v 8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
\v 9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’”
\p The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
\p
\v 10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
\p
\v 11 They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
\p
\v 12 Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
\p
\v 13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
\v 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
\v 15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
\v 16 Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
\p
\v 17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
\p
\v 18 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
\v 19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”
\p He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
\p
\v 20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
\v 21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?”
\p He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”


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\v 1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time,
\q2 Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
\q2 and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
\q1
\v 2 For the teraphim\f + \fr 10:2 \ft teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.\f* have spoken vanity,
\q2 and the diviners have seen a lie;
\q2 and they have told false dreams.
\q1 They comfort in vain.
\q2 Therefore they go their way like sheep.
\q2 They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
\q1
\v 3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
\q2 and I will punish the male goats;
\q2 For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
\q2 and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
\q1
\v 4 From him will come the cornerstone,
\q2 from him the nail,
\q2 from him the battle bow,
\q2 from him every ruler together.
\q2
\v 5 They shall be as mighty men,
\q2 treading down muddy streets in the battle;
\q2 and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
\q2 and the riders on horses will be confounded.
\q1
\v 6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
\q2 and I will save the house of Joseph,
\q2 and I will bring them back;
\q2 for I have mercy on them;
\q2 and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
\q2 for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
\q1
\v 7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
\q2 and their heart will rejoice as through wine;
\q2 yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
\q2 Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 8 I will signal for them, and gather them;
\q2 for I have redeemed them;
\q2 and they will increase as they have increased.
\q1
\v 9 I will sow them among the peoples;
\q2 and they will remember me in far countries;
\q2 and they will live with their children, and will return.
\q1
\v 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
\q2 and gather them out of Assyria;
\q1 and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
\q2 and there won’t be room enough for them.
\q1
\v 11 He will pass through the sea of affliction,
\q2 and will strike the waves in the sea,
\q2 and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
\q2 and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
\q2 and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
\q1
\v 12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
\q2 and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.


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\v 1 Open your doors, Lebanon,
\q2 that the fire may devour your cedars.
\q1
\v 2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,
\q2 because the stately ones are destroyed.
\q1 Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
\q2 for the strong forest has come down.
\q1
\v 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
\q2 For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
\q2 For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
\v 5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
\v 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
\p
\v 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
\v 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
\v 9 Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
\v 10 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
\v 11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.
\v 12 I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
\v 13 Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.
\v 14 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
\p
\v 15 Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
\v 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
\v 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”


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\v 1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
\v 2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
\v 3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
\v 4 In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
\v 5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
\v 6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
\v 7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
\v 8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
\v 9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
\v 10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me\f + \fr 12:10 \ft After “me”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.\f* whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
\v 11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
\v 12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
\v 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
\v 14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.


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\v 1 “In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
\v 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
\v 3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
\v 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
\v 5 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’
\v 6 One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
\q2 and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\q1 “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
\q2 and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
\q1
\v 8 It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “two parts in it will be cut off and die;
\q2 but the third will be left in it.
\q1
\v 9 I will bring the third part into the fire,
\q2 and will refine them as silver is refined,
\q2 and will test them like gold is tested.
\q1 They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
\q2 I will say, ‘It is my people;’
\q2 and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”


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\v 1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
\v 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
\v 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
\v 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
\v 5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.\f + \fr 14:5 \ft Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”.\f*
\v 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
\v 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
\p
\v 8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
\v 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
\v 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
\v 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
\v 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
\v 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
\p
\v 15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
\v 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
\v 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
\v 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\v 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
\v 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
\v 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.


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\v 1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
\v 2 Then I asked, “Where are you going?”
\p He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
\p
\v 3 Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
\v 4 and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
\v 5 For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
\v 6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
\v 7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
\v 8 For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
\v 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
\v 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
\v 11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
\v 12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
\v 13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
\v 2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
\p
\v 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
\v 4 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
\p
\v 5 I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.”
\p So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
\v 6 Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,
\v 7 “Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
\v 8 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
\v 9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
\v 10 In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
\v 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
\p I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
\v 3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”
\p
\v 4 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
\p
\v 5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
\p I said, “No, my lord.”
\p
\v 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
\p
\v 8 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
\v 10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
\p
\v 11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”
\p
\v 12 I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”
\p
\v 13 He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
\p I said, “No, my lord.”
\p
\v 14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord \f + \fr 4:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* of the whole earth.”


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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
\v 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
\p I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits,\f + \fr 5:2 \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* and its width ten cubits.”
\p
\v 3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
\v 4 I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
\p
\v 5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing.”
\p
\v 6 I said, “What is it?”
\p He said, “This is the ephah\f + \fr 5:6 \ft An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel. \f* basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
\v 7 (and behold, a talent\f + \fr 5:7 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah\f + \fr 5:7 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* basket.”
\v 8 He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
\p
\v 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
\v 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”
\p
\v 11 He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
\v 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
\v 3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
\v 4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
\p
\v 5 The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
\v 6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.”
\v 7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, “Go around and through the earth!” So they walked back and forth through the earth.
\p
\v 8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\v 10 “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
\v 11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
\v 12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
\v 13 even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
\v 14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh’s temple.
\v 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.”’”\f + \fr 6:15 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
\v 2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,
\v 3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
\p
\v 4 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
\v 5 “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
\v 6 When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
\v 7 Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
\p
\v 8 Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
\v 9 “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
\v 10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
\v 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
\v 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
\v 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
\v 14 “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”


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\c 8
\p
\v 1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
\v 2 Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
\p
\v 4 Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
\v 5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
\v 8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
\v 10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
\v 11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 12 “For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
\v 13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
\p
\v 14 For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
\v 15 so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
\v 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
\v 17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
\v 19 Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
\p
\v 20 Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
\v 21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’
\v 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”
\v 23 Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 A revelation.
\q1 Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach,
\q2 and will rest upon Damascus;
\q1 for the eye of man
\q2 and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
\q1
\v 2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it;
\q2 Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
\q1
\v 3 Tyre built herself a stronghold,
\q2 and heaped up silver like the dust,
\q2 and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
\q1
\v 4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
\q2 and he will strike her power in the sea;
\q2 and she will be devoured with fire.
\q1
\v 5 Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
\q2 Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
\q2 as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
\q2 and the king will perish from Gaza,
\q2 and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
\q1
\v 6 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
\q2 and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
\q1
\v 7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
\q2 and his abominations from between his teeth;
\q1 and he also will be a remnant for our God;
\q2 and he will be as a chieftain in Judah,
\q2 and Ekron as a Jebusite.
\q1
\v 8 I will encamp around my house against the army,
\q2 that no one pass through or return;
\q2 and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
\q2 for now I have seen with my eyes.
\q1
\v 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
\q2 Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
\q1 Behold, your King comes to you!
\q2 He is righteous, and having salvation;
\q2 lowly, and riding on a donkey,
\q2 even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
\q1
\v 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
\q2 and the horse from Jerusalem;
\q1 and the battle bow will be cut off;
\q2 and he will speak peace to the nations:
\q2 and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
\q2 and from the River to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\v 11 As for you also,
\q2 because of the blood of your covenant,
\q2 I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
\q1
\v 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
\q2 Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
\q1
\v 13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
\q2 I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
\q1 and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
\q2 against your sons, Greece,
\q2 and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh will be seen over them;
\q2 and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
\q2 and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
\q2 and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh of Armies will defend them;
\q2 and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones;
\q2 and they will drink, and roar as through wine;
\q2 and they will be filled like bowls,
\q2 like the corners of the altar.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people;
\q2 for they are like the jewels of a crown,
\q2 lifted on high over his land.
\q1
\v 17 For how great is his goodness,
\q2 and how great is his beauty!
\q1 Grain will make the young men flourish,
\q2 and new wine the virgins.


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\mt1 Malachi


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\c 1
\p
\v 1 A revelation, Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word to Israel by Malachi.
\p
\v 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh.
\p Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
\p “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
\v 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
\v 4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
\p
\v 5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
\p
\v 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
\v 7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
\v 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 9 “Now, please entreat the favor of God,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
\v 11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 12 “But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
\v 13 You say also, ‘Behold,\f + \fr 1:13 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
\p
\v 14 “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord\f + \fr 1:14 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
\v 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
\v 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,\f + \fr 2:3 \ft or, seed\f* and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
\v 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 5 “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
\v 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
\v 7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
\v 8 But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
\v 10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
\v 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
\v 12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
\v 13 This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
\v 14 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
\v 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
\v 16 One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
\v 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 2 “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
\v 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
\v 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
\v 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 6 “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
\v 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
\v 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
\v 9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
\v 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
\v 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\v 12 “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 13 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
\v 14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
\v 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
\v 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
\v 17 They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
\v 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
\v 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
\v 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\v 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
\v 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
\v 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”


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\v 1 Yahweh\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
\v 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
\v 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
\v 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.
\v 5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:
\p Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\p
\v 6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\p
\v 7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\p
\v 8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\p
\v 9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
\p
\v 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\p
\v 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\p
\v 12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\p
\v 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\p
\v 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
\p
\v 15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
\p
\v 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes\f + \fr 1:16 \ft or, chiefs, or, leaders\f* of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
\v 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
\v 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
\v 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
\p
\v 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 21 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 23 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
\p
\v 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
\p
\v 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 27 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
\p
\v 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 29 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 32 Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
\p
\v 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 37 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
\p
\v 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 41 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
\v 43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.
\v 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—
\v 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
\v 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
\v 48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
\v 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
\v 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
\v 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
\v 53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
\p
\v 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
\v 3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
\v 5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
\v 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
\v 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
\p
\v 8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
\v 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
\p
\v 10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
\p
\v 11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
\v 12 The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
\v 13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
\p
\v 14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
\v 15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.
\v 16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
\v 17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
\v 18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.
\v 19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.
\v 20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
\p
\v 21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
\p
\v 22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
\v 23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
\v 24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.
\p
\v 25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
\v 26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
\v 27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.
\v 28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
\p
\v 29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
\p
\v 30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
\p
\v 31 Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
\v 32 It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.”
\p
\v 33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
\v 34 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
\v 35 When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
\v 36 When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”


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\v 1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
\v 2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
\v 3 The name of that place was called Taberah,\f + \fr 11:3 \ft Taberah means “burning” \f* because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.
\p
\v 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
\v 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
\v 6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
\v 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.\f + \fr 11:7 \ft Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.\f*
\v 8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
\v 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
\p
\v 10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.
\v 11 Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
\v 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’
\v 13 Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
\v 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
\v 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
\v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.
\p
\v 18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.
\v 19 You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
\v 20 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
\p
\v 21 Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
\v 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
\p
\v 24 Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
\v 25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
\v 26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
\v 27 A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
\p
\v 28 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
\p
\v 29 Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
\p
\v 30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
\v 31 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits\f + \fr 11:31 \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* above the surface of the earth.
\v 32 The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; \f + \fr 11:32 \ft 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels\f* and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
\v 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
\v 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah,\f + \fr 11:34 \ft Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”\f* because there they buried the people who lusted.
\p
\v 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.


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\v 1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
\v 2 They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.
\p
\v 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
\v 4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!”
\p The three of them came out.
\v 5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
\v 6 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
\v 7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
\v 8 With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
\v 9 Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed.
\p
\v 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
\p
\v 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.
\v 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
\p
\v 13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
\p
\v 15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
\v 16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
\p
\v 3 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
\v 4 These were their names:
\m Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
\m
\v 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
\m
\v 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\m
\v 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
\m
\v 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
\m
\v 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
\m
\v 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
\m
\v 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
\m
\v 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
\m
\v 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
\m
\v 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
\m
\v 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
\m
\v 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
\v 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.
\v 18 See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
\v 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
\v 20 and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
\p
\v 21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
\v 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
\v 23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
\v 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
\v 25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
\v 26 They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
\v 27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
\v 28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
\v 29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
\p
\v 30 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
\p
\v 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
\v 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
\v 33 There we saw the Nephilim,\f + \fr 13:33 \ft or, giants\f* the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim.\f + \fr 13:33 \ft or, giants\f* We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”


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\v 1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
\v 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
\v 3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
\v 4 They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
\p
\v 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
\p
\v 6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
\v 7 They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
\v 8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
\v 9 Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
\p
\v 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones.
\p Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
\v 11 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
\v 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
\p
\v 13 Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
\v 14 They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
\v 15 Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
\v 16 ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
\v 17 Now please let the power of the Lord\f + \fr 14:17 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
\v 18 ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
\v 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
\p
\v 20 Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
\v 21 but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—
\v 22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
\v 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
\v 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
\v 25 Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
\v 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
\v 28 Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
\v 29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
\v 30 surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
\v 31 But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
\v 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
\v 33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
\v 34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
\v 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
\p
\v 36 The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
\v 37 even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
\v 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
\p
\v 39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
\v 40 They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”
\p
\v 41 Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
\v 42 Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
\v 43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”
\p
\v 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
\v 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.


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\c 15
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,
\v 3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—
\v 4 then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah\f + \fr 15:4 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with one fourth of a hin\f + \fr 15:4 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of oil.
\v 5 You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
\p
\v 6 “‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 15:6 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;
\v 7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 8 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh,
\v 9 then he shall offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah\f + \fr 15:9 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
\v 10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 11 Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.
\v 12 According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.
\p
\v 13 “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 14 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do.
\v 15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.
\v 16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
\v 19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
\v 20 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
\v 21 Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
\p
\v 22 “‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—
\v 23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
\v 24 then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
\v 25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.
\v 26 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly.
\p
\v 27 “‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
\v 28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh. He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
\v 29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
\p
\v 30 “‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
\v 31 Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”
\p
\v 32 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
\v 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
\v 34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
\p
\v 35 Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
\v 36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 37 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes\f + \fr 15:38 \ft or, tassels (Hebrew צִיצִ֛ת)\f* on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe \f + \fr 15:38 \ft or, tassel\f* of each border a cord of blue.
\v 39 It shall be to you for a fringe,\f + \fr 15:39 \ft or, tassel\f* that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
\v 40 so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
\v 41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.”


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\c 16
\p
\v 1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
\v 2 They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.
\v 3 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
\p
\v 4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.
\v 5 He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
\v 6 Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,
\v 7 put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”
\p
\v 8 Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!
\v 9 Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
\v 10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?
\v 11 Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”
\p
\v 12 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
\v 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
\v 14 Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
\p
\v 15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
\p
\v 16 Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.
\v 17 Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”
\p
\v 18 They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.
\v 19 Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.
\v 20 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 21 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
\p
\v 22 They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
\p
\v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”
\p
\v 25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
\v 26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
\p
\v 27 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
\p
\v 28 Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
\v 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.
\v 30 But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,\f + \fr 16:30 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
\p
\v 31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
\v 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
\v 33 So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. \f + \fr 16:33 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
\v 34 All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
\v 35 Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
\p
\v 36 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 37 “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,
\v 38 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
\p
\v 39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
\v 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
\p
\v 41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”
\p
\v 42 When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and Yahweh’s glory appeared.
\v 43 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 45 “Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
\p
\v 46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
\p
\v 47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
\v 48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
\v 49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.
\v 50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name on his rod.
\v 3 You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.
\v 4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
\v 5 It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”
\p
\v 6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods.
\v 7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the Testimony.
\p
\v 8 On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
\v 9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel. They looked, and each man took his rod.
\p
\v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”
\v 11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
\p
\v 12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
\v 13 Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”


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\c 18
\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
\v 2 Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
\v 3 They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
\v 4 They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.
\p
\v 5 “You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
\v 6 Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
\p
\v 8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
\v 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
\v 10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
\p
\v 11 “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
\p
\v 12 “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.
\v 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
\p
\v 14 “Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
\v 15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
\v 16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel\f + \fr 18:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.\f + \fr 18:16 \ft A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.\f*
\p
\v 17 “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\v 18 Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
\v 19 All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”
\p
\v 20 Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
\p
\v 21 “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
\v 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
\v 24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’”
\p
\v 25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 26 “Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
\v 27 Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
\v 28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
\v 29 Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
\p
\v 30 “Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
\v 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
\v 32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”


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\c 19
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 2 “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.
\v 3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
\v 4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.
\v 5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.
\v 6 The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
\v 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
\v 8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\v 9 “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.
\v 10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
\p
\v 11 “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
\v 12 He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
\v 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
\p
\v 14 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
\v 15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
\p
\v 16 “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
\p
\v 17 “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured on them in a vessel.
\v 18 A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
\v 19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.
\v 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
\v 21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
\p
\v 22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 2 “The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”
\p
\v 3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
\v 4 His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
\p
\v 5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.
\v 6 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 7 The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
\v 8 His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 9 All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
\p
\v 10 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
\v 11 His division, and those who were counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 12 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
\v 13 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
\p
\v 14 “The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
\v 15 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
\p
\v 16 “All who were counted of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
\p
\v 17 “Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
\p
\v 18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
\v 19 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
\p
\v 20 “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
\v 21 His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
\p
\v 22 “The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
\v 23 His army, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 24 “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
\p
\v 25 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
\v 26 His division, and those who were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
\p
\v 27 “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.
\v 28 His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
\p
\v 29 “The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
\v 30 His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
\p
\v 31 “All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”
\p
\v 32 These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
\v 33 But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.


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\c 20
\p
\v 1 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
\v 2 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
\v 3 The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
\v 4 Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
\v 5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”
\p
\v 6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.
\v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 8 “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
\p
\v 9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
\v 10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
\v 11 Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
\p
\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
\p
\v 13 These are the waters of Meribah;\f + \fr 20:13 \ft “Meribah” means “quarreling”.\f* because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
\p
\v 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:
\p “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
\v 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
\v 16 When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
\p
\v 17 “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
\p
\v 18 Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
\p
\v 19 The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
\p
\v 20 He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
\v 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
\p
\v 22 They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
\v 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
\v 24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
\v 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
\v 26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”
\p
\v 27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
\v 28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
\v 29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.


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\c 21
\p
\v 1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
\v 2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
\v 3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.\f + \fr 21:3 \ft “Hormah” means “destruction”.\f*
\p
\v 4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.
\v 5 The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
\v 7 The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
\p
\v 8 Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
\v 9 Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
\p
\v 10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
\v 11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
\v 12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
\v 13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
\v 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
\v 15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
\p
\v 16 From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
\p
\v 17 Then Israel sang this song:
\q1 “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
\q2
\v 18 the well, which the princes dug,
\q2 which the nobles of the people dug,
\q2 with the scepter, and with their poles.”
\p From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
\v 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
\v 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
\v 21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
\v 22 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
\p
\v 23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
\v 24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
\v 25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
\v 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
\v 27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
\q1 “Come to Heshbon.
\q2 Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
\q1
\v 28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
\q2 a flame from the city of Sihon.
\q1 It has devoured Ar of Moab,
\q2 The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
\q1
\v 29 Woe to you, Moab!
\q2 You are undone, people of Chemosh!
\q1 He has given his sons as fugitives,
\q2 and his daughters into captivity,
\q2 to Sihon king of the Amorites.
\q1
\v 30 We have shot at them.
\q2 Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
\q1 We have laid waste even to Nophah,
\q2 Which reaches to Medeba.”
\p
\v 31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
\v 32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
\v 33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
\p
\v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
\p
\v 35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.


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\c 22
\p
\v 1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
\v 2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
\v 3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
\v 4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”
\p Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
\v 5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
\v 6 Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
\p
\v 7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
\p
\v 8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
\p
\v 9 God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
\p
\v 10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,
\v 11 ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
\p
\v 12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
\p
\v 13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”
\p
\v 14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
\p
\v 15 Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
\v 16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
\v 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
\p
\v 18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
\v 19 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
\p
\v 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
\p
\v 21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
\v 22 God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
\v 23 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.
\v 24 Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
\v 25 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.
\p
\v 26 Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
\v 27 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
\p
\v 28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
\p
\v 29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
\p
\v 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?”
\p He said, “No.”
\p
\v 31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
\v 32 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
\v 33 The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
\p
\v 34 Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
\p
\v 35 Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.”
\p So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
\v 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
\v 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
\p
\v 38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
\p
\v 39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
\v 40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
\v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
\p
\v 2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
\v 3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
\p He went to a bare height.
\v 4 God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
\p
\v 6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
\v 7 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “From Aram has Balak brought me,
\q2 the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
\q1 Come, curse Jacob for me.
\q2 Come, defy Israel.
\q1
\v 8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
\q2 How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
\q1
\v 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him.
\q2 From the hills I see him.
\q1 Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
\q2 and shall not be listed among the nations.
\q1
\v 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
\q2 or count the fourth part of Israel?
\q1 Let me die the death of the righteous!
\q2 Let my last end be like his!”
\p
\v 11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
\p
\v 12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
\p
\v 13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
\p
\v 14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
\v 15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
\p
\v 17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
\p
\v 18 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Rise up, Balak, and hear!
\q2 Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
\q1
\v 19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
\q2 nor a son of man, that he should repent.
\q1 Has he said, and will he not do it?
\q2 Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
\q1
\v 20 Behold, I have received a command to bless.
\q2 He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
\q1
\v 21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
\q2 Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
\q1 Yahweh his God is with him.
\q2 The shout of a king is among them.
\q1
\v 22 God brings them out of Egypt.
\q2 He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
\q1
\v 23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
\q2 Neither is there any divination with Israel.
\q1 Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
\q2 ‘What has God done!’
\q1
\v 24 Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
\q2 As a lion he lifts himself up.
\q1 He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,
\q2 and drinks the blood of the slain.”
\p
\v 25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
\p
\v 26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”
\p
\v 27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
\p
\v 28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
\v 29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
\p
\v 30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.


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\c 24
\p
\v 1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
\v 2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
\v 3 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Balaam the son of Beor says,
\q2 the man whose eyes are open says;
\q1
\v 4 he says, who hears the words of God,
\q2 who sees the vision of the Almighty,
\q2 falling down, and having his eyes open:
\q1
\v 5 How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
\q2 and your dwellings, Israel!
\q1
\v 6 As valleys they are spread out,
\q2 as gardens by the riverside,
\q2 as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
\q2 as cedar trees beside the waters.
\q1
\v 7 Water shall flow from his buckets.
\q2 His seed shall be in many waters.
\q1 His king shall be higher than Agag.
\q2 His kingdom shall be exalted.
\q1
\v 8 God brings him out of Egypt.
\q2 He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
\q1 He shall consume the nations his adversaries,
\q2 shall break their bones in pieces,
\q2 and pierce them with his arrows.
\q1
\v 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion,
\q2 as a lioness;
\q2 who shall rouse him up?
\q1 Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
\q2 Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
\p
\v 10 Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
\v 11 Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
\p
\v 12 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
\v 13 ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
\v 14 Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
\p
\v 15 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Balaam the son of Beor says,
\q2 the man whose eyes are open says;
\q2
\v 16 he says, who hears the words of God,
\q2 knows the knowledge of the Most High,
\q2 and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
\q2 Falling down, and having his eyes open:
\q1
\v 17 I see him, but not now.
\q2 I see him, but not near.
\q1 A star will come out of Jacob.
\q2 A scepter will rise out of Israel,
\q1 and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
\q2 and crush all the sons of Sheth.
\q1
\v 18 Edom shall be a possession.
\q2 Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
\q2 while Israel does valiantly.
\q1
\v 19 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
\q2 and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
\p
\v 20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Amalek was the first of the nations,
\q2 But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
\p
\v 21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Your dwelling place is strong.
\q2 Your nest is set in the rock.
\q1
\v 22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
\q2 until Asshur carries you away captive.”
\p
\v 23 He took up his parable, and said,
\q1 “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
\q2
\v 24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
\q1 They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
\q2 He also shall come to destruction.”
\p
\v 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.


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\p
\v 1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
\v 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
\v 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.
\v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
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\v 5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
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\v 6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
\v 8 He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
\v 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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\v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
\v 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.
\v 13 It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”
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\v 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.
\v 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.
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\v 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 17 “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
\v 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”


