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  <INFORMATION>
    <title>King James Version</title>
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    <subject>The Holy Bible</subject>
    <description>In 1604, King James I of England authorized that a new translation of the Bible into English be started. It was finished in 1611, just 85 years after the first translation of the New Testament into English appeared (Tyndale, 1526). The Authorized Version, or King James Version, quickly became the standard for English-speaking Protestants. Its flowing language and prose rhythm has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 300 years.</description>
    <publisher>FREE BIBLE SOFTWARE GROUP</publisher>
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    <date>2009-01-23</date>
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    <identifier>KJV</identifier>
    <source>http://www.unboundbible.com/zips/index.cfm?lang=English</source>
    <language>ENG</language>
    <coverage>provide the Bible to the nations of the world</coverage>
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  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="1" bname="Genesis" bsname="Gen">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the evening and the morning were the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And God spake unto Noah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But Sarai was barren; she had no child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Abraham said, I will swear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he said, I am Abraham's servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he went up from thence to Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he put them all together into ward three days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="43">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the famine was sore in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="44">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="45">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="46">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the sons of Dan; Hushim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="47">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="48">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="49">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="50">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="2" bname="Exodus" bsname="Exod">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">This day came ye out in the month Abib.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So the people rested on the seventh day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And God spake all these words, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt have no other gods before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt not kill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not commit adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt not steal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt make ouches of gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="3" bname="Leviticus" bsname="Lev">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when Moses heard that, he was content.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Every raven after his kind;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and 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:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But 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: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And 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 the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and 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:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Neither shall he 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 the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shall take a wife in her virginity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="4" bname="Numbers" bsname="Num">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="74">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="75">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="76">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="77">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="78">On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="79">His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="80">One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="81">One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="82">One kid of the goats for a sin offering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="83">And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="84">This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="85">Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="86">The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="87">All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="88">And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="89">And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="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 even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto 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.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="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 unto Arnon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Vex the Midianites, and smite them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And threescore and one thousand asses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And thirty and six thousand beeves,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And sixteen thousand persons;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ijeabarim, in the border of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="5" bname="Deuteronomy" bsname="Deut">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD spake unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That the LORD spake unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I gave Gilead unto Machir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou shalt have none other gods before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt not kill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Neither shalt thou commit adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Neither shalt thou steal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Of all clean birds ye shall eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And every raven after his kind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But of all clean fowls ye may eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="6" bname="Joshua" bsname="Josh">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Ekron, with her towns and her villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="7" bname="Judges" bsname="Judg">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="8" bname="Ruth" bsname="Ruth">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="9" bname="1 Samuel" bsname="1Sam">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="10" bname="2 Samuel" bsname="2Sam">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="11" bname="1 Kings" bsname="1Kgs">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So king Solomon was king over all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So Solomon built the house, and finished it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="12" bname="2 Kings" bsname="2Kgs">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="13" bname="1 Chronicles" bsname="1Chr">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Adam, Sheth, Enosh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Eber, Peleg, Reu,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Serug, Nahor, Terah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Abram; the same is Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Amon his son, Josiah his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="74">And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="75">And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="76">And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="77">Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="78">And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="79">Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="80">And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="81">And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Non his son, Jehoshua his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat Micah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obededom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="14" bname="2 Chronicles" bsname="2Chr">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">One sea, and twelve oxen under it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="15" bname="Ezra" bsname="Ezra">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The men of Netophah, fifty and six.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The children of Nebo, fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="16" bname="Nehemiah" bsname="Neh">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Malluch, Harim, Baanah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="17" bname="Esther" bsname="Esth">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="18" bname="Job" bsname="Job">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Job spake, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But Job answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Furthermore Elihu answered and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Elihu spake moreover, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Elihu also proceeded, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Job answered the LORD, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Job answered the LORD, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He had also seven sons and three daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So Job died, being old and full of days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="19" bname="Psalm" bsname="Ps">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <CAPTION vref="1"> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Michtam of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Prayer of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David, Maschil. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="43">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="44">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="45">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="46">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="47">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="48">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">God is known in her palaces for a refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="49">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Both low and high, rich and poor, together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="50">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="51">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="52">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="53">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="54">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="55">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="56">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="57">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="58">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="59">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="60">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="61">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="62">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="63">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="64">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="65">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="66">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="67">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="68">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="69">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="70">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="71">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="72">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm for Solomon. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="73">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="74">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Maschil of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="75">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="76">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="77">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="78">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Maschil of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="79">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="80">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="81">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="82">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="83">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song or Psalm of Asaph. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="84">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="85">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="86">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Prayer of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="87">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">His foundation is in the holy mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="88">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="89">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="90">
      <CAPTION vref="1"> A Prayer of Moses the man of God.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="91">
      <VERS vnumber="1">He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="92">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="93">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="94">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="95">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="96">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="97">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="98">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="99">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="100">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of praise. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="101">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="102">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="103">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="104">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="105">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="106">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="107">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="108">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song or Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="109">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let his days be few; and let another take his office.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="110">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="111">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="112">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="113">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="114">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="115">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="116">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I said in my haste, All men are liars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="117">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="118">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="119">
      <VERS vnumber="1">ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">This I had, because I kept thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="74">They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="75">I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="76">Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="77">Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="78">Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="79">Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="80">Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="81">CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="82">Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="83">For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="84">How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="85">The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="86">All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="87">They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="88">Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="89">LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="90">Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="91">They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="92">Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="93">I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="94">I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="95">The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="96">I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="97">MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="98">Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="99">I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="100">I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="101">I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="102">I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="103">How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="104">Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="105">NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="106">I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="107">I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="108">Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="109">My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="110">The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="111">Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="112">I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="113">SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="114">Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="115">Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="116">Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="117">Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="118">Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="119">Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="120">My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="121">AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="122">Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="123">Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="124">Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="125">I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="126">It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="127">Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="128">Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="129">PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="130">The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="131">I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="132">Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="133">Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="134">Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="135">Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="136">Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="137">TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="138">Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="139">My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="140">Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="141">I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="142">Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="143">Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="144">The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="145">KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="146">I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="147">I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="148">Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="149">Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="150">They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="151">Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="152">Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="153">RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="154">Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="155">Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="156">Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="157">Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="158">I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="159">Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="160">Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="161">SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="162">I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="163">I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="164">Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="165">Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="166">LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="167">My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="168">I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="169">TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="170">Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="171">My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="172">My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="173">Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="174">I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="175">Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="176">I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="120">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="121">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="122">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="123">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="124">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="125">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="126">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="127">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees for Solomon.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1"> Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="128">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="129">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="130">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="131">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="132">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="133">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="134">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Song of degrees. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="135">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="136">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="137">
      <VERS vnumber="1">By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="138">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="139">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="140">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="141">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Psalm of David.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="142">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="143">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="144">
      <CAPTION vref="1">A Psalm of David. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="145">
      <CAPTION vref="1">David's Psalm of praise. </CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="146">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="147">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="148">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="149">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="150">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="20" bname="Proverbs" bsname="Prov">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">To call passengers who go right on their ways:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Open rebuke is better than secret love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="21" bname="Ecclesiastes" bsname="Eccl">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="22" bname="Song of Solomon" bsname="Song">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The song of songs, which is Solomon's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="23" bname="Isaiah" bsname="Isa">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the idols he shall utterly abolish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The rings, and nose jewels,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="43">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="44">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="45">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="46">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="47">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="48">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="49">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="50">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="51">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="52">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="53">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="54">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="55">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="56">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="57">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="58">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="59">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="60">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="61">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="62">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="63">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="64">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="65">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="66">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="24" bname="Jeremiah" bsname="Jer">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I charged Baruch before them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="43">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="44">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="45">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="46">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="47">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="48">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="49">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="50">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="51">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="52">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="25" bname="Lamentations" bsname="Lam">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For the Lord will not cast off for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="26" bname="Ezekiel" bsname="Ezek">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="29">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="30">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="31">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="32">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="33">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="34">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="35">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="36">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="37">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="38">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="39">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="40">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="41">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="42">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="43">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="44">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="45">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="46">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="47">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="48">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="27" bname="Daniel" bsname="Dan">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even 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 oblation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="28" bname="Hosea" bsname="Hos">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD that came unto 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.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="29" bname="Joel" bsname="Joel">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="30" bname="Amos" bsname="Amos">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Can two walk together, except they be agreed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="31" bname="Obadiah" bsname="Obad">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="32" bname="Jonah" bsname="Jonah">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="33" bname="Micah" bsname="Mic">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="34" bname="Nahum" bsname="Nah">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="35" bname="Habakkuk" bsname="Hab">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="36" bname="Zephaniah" bsname="Zeph">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, 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 upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="37" bname="Haggai" bsname="Hag">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="38" bname="Zechariah" bsname="Zech">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="39" bname="Malachi" bsname="Mal">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="40" bname="Matthew" bsname="Matt">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Give us this day our daily bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Judge not, that ye be not judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he arose, and departed to his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when ye come into an house, salute it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And charged them that they should not make him known:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He said, Bring them hither to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For many are called, but few are chosen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And last of all the woman died also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Master, which is the great commandment in the law?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">This is the first and great commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All these are the beginning of sorrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Behold, I have told you before.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="74">Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="75">And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And sitting down they watched him there;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="41" bname="Mark" bsname="Mark">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And all the city was gathered together at the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Simon he surnamed Peter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The sower soweth the word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they went out, and preached that men should repent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they did all eat, and were filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For he that is not against us is on our part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when even was come, he went out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the gospel must first be published among all nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they laid their hands on him, and took him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And they all forsook him, and fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">But neither so did their witness agree together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they cried out again, Crucify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Save thyself, and come down from the cross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="42" bname="Luke" bsname="Luke">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For with God nothing shall be impossible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="72">To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="73">The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="74">That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="75">In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="76">And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="77">To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="78">Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="79">To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="80">And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But he passing through the midst of them went his way,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he left all, rose up, and followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But wisdom is justified of all her children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they did so, and made them all sit down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Give us day by day our daily bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And they could not answer him again to these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he spake this parable unto them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said, A certain man had two sons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Remember Lot's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And they said, The Lord hath need of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Last of all the woman died also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And it shall turn to you for a testimony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But there shall not an hair of your head perish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">In your patience possess ye your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I will therefore chastise him, and release him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they remembered his words,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they talked together of all these things which had happened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And he took it, and did eat before them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And ye are witnesses of these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="43" bname="John" bsname="John">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The same was in the beginning with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In him was life; and the life was the light of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He came unto his own, and his own received him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But he spake of the temple of his body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For John was not yet cast into prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He must increase, but I must decrease.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he must needs go through Samaria.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And many more believed because of his own word;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">I receive not honour from men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">I am that bread of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="61">When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="62">What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="63">It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="64">But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="65">And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="66">From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="67">Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="68">Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="69">And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="70">Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="71">He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For neither did his brethren believe in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">So there was a division among the people because of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">And every man went unto his own house.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">As he spake these words, many believed on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">I and my Father are one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And many believed on him there.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Jesus wept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">This he said, signifying what death he should die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If ye love me, keep my commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">These things I command you, that ye love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">He that hateth me hateth my Father also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Of sin, because they believe not on me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="44" bname="Acts" bsname="Acts">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Until I make thy foes thy footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And all that believed were together, and had all things common;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And all the people saw him walking and praising God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then said the high priest, Are these things so?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">But Solomon built him an house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Hath not my hand made all these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="59">And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="60">And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there was great joy in that city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But the word of God grew and multiplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But God raised him from the dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there they preached the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And there they abode long time with the disciples.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">So Paul departed from among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he drave them from the judgment seat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And all the men were about twelve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">These going before tarried for us at Troas.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="23">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And he wrote a letter after this manner:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="24">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="25">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="26">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="27">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="28">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="45" bname="Romans" bsname="Rom">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who will render to every man according to his deeds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For there is no respect of persons with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Their feet are swift to shed blood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Destruction and misery are in their ways:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the way of peace have they not known:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There is no fear of God before their eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And patience, experience; and experience, hope:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For he that is dead is freed from sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let not then your good be evil spoken of:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="46" bname="1 Corinthians" bsname="1Cor">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.</CAPTION>
      <CAPTION vref="1">The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">That no flesh should glory in his presence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But if any man love God, the same is known of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Have we not power to eat and to drink?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And did all eat the same spiritual meat;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the body is not one member, but many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if they were all one member, where were the body?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But now are they many members, yet but one body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">Let all things be done decently and in order.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="41">There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="42">So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="43">It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="44">It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="45">And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="46">Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="47">The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="48">As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="49">And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="50">Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="51">Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="52">In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="53">For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="54">So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="55">O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="56">The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="57">But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="58">Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Let all your things be done with charity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="47" bname="2 Corinthians" bsname="2Cor">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So then death worketh in us, but life in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For we walk by faith, not by sight:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Greet one another with an holy kiss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">All the saints salute you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="48" bname="Galatians" bsname="Gal">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the Galatians written from Rome.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they glorified God in me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I would they were even cut off which trouble you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For every man shall bear his own burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="49" bname="Ephesians" bsname="Eph">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Not of works, lest any man should boast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">One Lord, one faith, one baptism,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But ye have not so learned Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Neither give place to the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be not ye therefore partakers with them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="50" bname="Philippians" bsname="Phil">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">To the Philippians written from Rome, by Epaphroditus.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Do all things without murmurings and disputings:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="51" bname="Colossians" bsname="Col">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Written from Rome to Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Touch not; taste not; handle not;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="52" bname="1 Thessalonians" bsname="1Thess">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">The first epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For ye are our glory and joy.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Wherefore comfort one another with these words.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Rejoice evermore.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Pray without ceasing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Quench not the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Despise not prophesyings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Abstain from all appearance of evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Brethren, pray for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="53" bname="2 Thessalonians" bsname="2Thess">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="54" bname="1 Timothy" bsname="1Tim">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For Adam was first formed, then Eve.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">These things command and teach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Honour widows that are widows indeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For some are already turned aside after Satan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But godliness with contentment is great gain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="55" bname="2 Timothy" bsname="2Tim">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="56" bname="Titus" bsname="Titus">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="57" bname="Philemon" bsname="Phlm">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="58" bname="Hebrews" bsname="Heb">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <CAPTION vref="1">Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.</CAPTION>
      <VERS vnumber="1">God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And this will we do, if God permit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And having an high priest over the house of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For by it the elders obtained a good report.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="30">By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="31">By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="32">And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="33">Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="34">Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="35">Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="36">And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="37">They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="38">Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="39">And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="40">God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">For our God is a consuming fire.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Let brotherly love continue.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Grace be with you all. Amen. </VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="59" bname="James" bsname="Jas">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Do not err, my beloved brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="60" bname="1 Peter" bsname="1Pet">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Use hospitality one to another without grudging.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="61" bname="2 Peter" bsname="2Pet">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="62" bname="1 John" bsname="1John">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">We love him, because he first loved us.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="63" bname="2 John" bsname="2John">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="64" bname="3 John" bsname="3John">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="65" bname="Jude" bsname="Jude">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And of some have compassion, making a difference:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
  </BIBLEBOOK>
  <BIBLEBOOK bnumber="66" bname="Revelation" bsname="Rev">
    <CHAPTER cnumber="1">
      <VERS vnumber="1">The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="2">
      <VERS vnumber="1">Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="28">And I will give him the morning star.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="29">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="3">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="4">
      <VERS vnumber="1">After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="5">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="6">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="7">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="8">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="9">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="10">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="11">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="12">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="13">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">If any man have an ear, let him hear.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="14">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="15">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="16">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="17">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="18">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="19">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="20">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.</VERS>
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    <CHAPTER cnumber="21">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="22">And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="23">And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="24">And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="25">And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="26">And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="27">And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.</VERS>
    </CHAPTER>
    <CHAPTER cnumber="22">
      <VERS vnumber="1">And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="2">In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="3">And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="4">And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="5">And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="6">And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="7">Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="8">And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="9">Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="10">And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="11">He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="12">And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="13">I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="14">Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="15">For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="16">I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="17">And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="18">For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="19">And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="20">He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.</VERS>
      <VERS vnumber="21">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.</VERS>
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