Talk of "unilateralism" has now become a mainstay of diplomatic rhetoric vis-à-vis Israeli occupation. A short skip from the "Gaza unilateral disengagement" headline, "unilateralism" should be seen as part of the unbroken Israeli ability to shift banners and build-up for its next public relations move. Even more alarming, this talk seeks to propagate to an international audience that occupation is not intrinsically oppressive and that, if left to its own devices, Israel could do the right thing -- fundamental untruths that turn reality on its head.

While numerous historical injustices along with an understanding of power relations should have taught the international community otherwise, Israel continues to gain support for its policies and actions. But in Palestine there are few questions as to what lies ahead since reality on the ground demonstrates that the future is already here as wall-enclosed ghettos concretise and close in on Palestinian lives. Reality, far from shifting, is moving in one unambiguous direction: continued occupation aimed at the total demise of the Palestinian cause.

It is part of Israel's quest to drown out the link between Israeli political slogans and its crimes, and thus maintain the horrid reality forced upon the Palestinian people through targeted killings and assassinations, aerial attacks, incursions, arrests, confiscations, demolitions, destruction, closures, forced impoverishment and humiliation that persist on a daily basis. Hordes of Israeli tanks invading West Bank cities -- Nablus, Jenin, Hebron, Qalqiliya, Jericho, Tulkarem and Bethlehem -- arresting tens of Palestinians and reeking havoc are unending. The chokehold on the already sealed Gaza Strip is accompanied by an onslaught of Israeli missile and mortar attacks numbering in the hundreds each day, the occupation confirming repeatedly the way in which it plans to "deal with" Palestinians.

In Jerusalem alone, the Israeli declaration that Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem be turned into "International Atarot Terminal" as part of the final borders policy took place without a hitch. The same applies to all Israeli measures in occupied Jerusalem -- confiscations, demolitions and the completion of the separation wall -- which continue with international complicity. The recently completed "Zeitim" terminal in the eastern Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Tur (Mount of Olives), Zaeem, and Ezarya, closing-off once and for all the eastern entrance to the city, splits these Jerusalem suburbs from each other, from Jerusalem, and from the West Bank. To finalise its plans to control the Jerusalem and demarcate borders, the occupation recently sealed Northern Jerusalem neighbourhoods with the separation wall, checkpoints and Israeli-contrived "alternative roads" thus directing Ram and Bir Nabala away from Jerusalem towards Ramallah, sealing shut another West Bank ghetto.

Since 2002, the Israeli occupation began building the massive apartheid wall to set final borders for Palestinian Bantustans by using the banner "state building" in the same way that apartheid South Africa called for "Bantustan Homelands". Thus, fabricated slogans around "final status" and "settlement dismantlement" easily merged with "Gaza unilateral disengagement," all of which contrived to gain worldwide and ultimate legitimacy for the occupation's West Bank settlements. In other words, Israel can continue to create all the facts on the grounds it needs, as it manoeuvres terminology with repeated success to the extent that its public and international relations -- so eagerly received and devoured -- are built on painting an inverse picture of reality. The immense past and present international support for Israel is testament to the virtual carte blanche offered to the occupation.
One of the greatest disservices of the 1993 Oslo Accords, intentionally sought-after by Israel, was to present a facade of bilateral partnership although non-existent. In this way, the word "unilateralism" has seeped into Israeli-controlled policy discussions with the occupation having succeeded in presenting itself as one side in a conflict, as opposed to the occupier and culprit in colonisation and war crimes. With the Israeli occupation pushing forward yet another discourse formulated with intent to maintain the status quo, being "anti-unilateralism" has been set-up to mean pro- negotiations and pro-partnership while "negotiations" and "partnership" were foundations of the Oslo Accords during which Israeli unilateralism -- i.e., colonial expansion and occupation -- reached an all time high. In other words, occupation by definition is unilateral. Talk of unilateralism seems designed to bring about conditions whereby Palestinian rights are signed away under duress.

International support plays a capital role in this trap. So, when the Israeli government suddenly declares that it will not act unilaterally what it means is that it will set up meetings and talks with its partners -- the US, EU and UN leaderships -- so as to confer on how best to package and time subsequent moves that adhere to their interests. And when the occupation simultaneously and cynically says it would "prefer" not to act unilaterally we are reminded that the whole notion of a Palestinian partner is but a card in Israeli hands meant to spread the idea that the ball is in the Palestinian court when all along it is in that of the occupation. In the end, the only partners the occupation has ever needed are relevant governments -- and not just Western governments -- together with their publics that give Tel Aviv a green light, either actively or through conspicuous silence.

Latest statements only confirm this. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and countless Israeli government spokespersons have made clear that if so- called "negotiations" -- which have been fictitious throughout -- fail then unilateral measures will take place, when in reality unilateral measures for "future" final borders are being implemented now and on an hourly basis regardless of Israeli (or international) announcements. During the Quartet meeting, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts expressed dislike for Israeli unilateral measures by stating a preference for agreement and diplomacy, underlining that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a partner for peace. As the Israeli paper Haaretz spelled-out last week: Western diplomats are most worried about rapid Israeli unilateral withdrawals without first exhausting diplomatic efforts. We then understand that support exists for "slow" as opposed to "rapid measures" -- in other words, transfer that is more media savvy -- with the ultimate preference that all measures be implemented amid handshakes and summits.

Final borders were being demarcated from at least the 1993 closure and checkpoint policy, moving forward a process where claims of an end to occupation under slogans of Palestinian self-rule were meant only to serve the interests of widening Israeli control. In the face of continued global complicity, these policies should be seen as the agreed means, between Israel and its allies, to "normalise" the occupation, setting into motion a spectrum of terms and phrases that play down power discrepancies and allow for parallel processes where rhetoric exists on the one hand and reality exists on another. Current US and EU siding with Israeli government declarations while simultaneously threatening and penalising Palestinians, financially and otherwise, must be seen as an extension of a long-standing policy of suppression.

Perhaps the real manoeuvring taking place is best highlighted through Olmert's repeated statements that Israel continues to wait for the Palestinians to make the required moves! This illustrates two core issues: on the one hand, the schism, if not inverse relationship, between what the occupation says and what it actually does. But even more so, that time is on the occupation's side, with time and timing as the springboards of Israeli unilateral expansionism in the context of deep- seated and insipid worldwide support.

* The writer is a US researcher based in occupied Jerusalem.

error

"From the early 1990s, the Israeli occupation has had but one goal: the complete destruction of the Palestinian national cause, writes Gabriela Becker"

This mendacious baloney only proves why the "commons" should never let themselves get bedazzled by a person's credentials, or alleged ones. Now that I've stumbled over this lie I see no point in reading through the screed that follows. Though I have noticed the caption at the bottom stating the author is based in "occupied Jerusalem" -- yet another bald faced lie.

there is an entire world of difference between
-Israeli political slogans and its crimes-
Both of which we have in abundance right here, right now.
Like this self professed 'scape goat Jew' ( self declared as all thieves will do when caught with their hand in your pocket ) who stokes the fires of hatred towards the very people he hides among, pretending to serve their interests.
A Judasgoat.

Non-human judging by your intelligence and nym identification. The nym is probably a logical outflow from the former. You're an inflammatory troll.

He -- actually she -- isn't correct only 'cause you say so.

like your cry for pity...
'Scapegoated Jew' ha ha More like rabid weasel. Poor little thing you.
I doubt your Jewishness as your Zionist tendencies seem to far outweigh any religious faith I'm aware of you possessing.
And your critique is empty. (MT)

Your painfully strained ploy whereby you juxtapose my Zionism or Jewishness against the level of my religious faith is a bigot's giveaway. I'm probably aethiest, yet I picked the nym in protest for being singled out for having been publicly threatened with permanent autoblocking by John K. or another of your editorial pals during the climax of your other friend's assault campaign (the real one of any notice) on this site.
Go Redeem your vapid soul. You keep betraying your neo-Nazi mentality virtually every post you make.

you whine about screwing off on another as well as this site and you adopt the glorious mantle of self professed martyr.
'Scapegoated Jew' More like a whining zionazi.
Stoking the fires of hate.

You're on to something. My presense, among others', unfortunately has served to stoke your (plural) racist hatred's flames no matter which tack we've resorted to, be it honey or vinegear. Proof that a neo-Nazi wannabe of the Palinazi persuasion can't be entightened.

Just for the other readership, as I'm only addressing you in the first person for rhetorical purposes: don't want to get called on your racism? Then stop pulling your "self-martyrdom" BS.

stop babbling.
your 'nyn' is lame and imploring of pity. whimpering and pathetic.
hiding the wickedness of your dogma.
'Israel does no wrong no matter what'.
And the 'what' is plenty.

the hypocrisy of your lame name.
'Scapegoated Jew' as if your actions haven't provoked even the editorial staff at Indybay as you get swatted here for similar abuses.
Mostly what annoys me about 'you ' is your apparent assumption that you are fooling anyone with your automatic predictable and limited train of confabulations, lies and proven falsehoods.
Just read the thread.

...you stop echoing the same time-honored retarded lies and slander as in:


"the hypocrisy of your lame name.
'Scapegoated Jew' as if your actions haven't provoked even the editorial staff at Indybay as you get swatted here for similar abuses.
Mostly what annoys me about 'you ' is your apparent assumption that you are fooling anyone with your automatic predictable and limited train of confabulations, lies and proven falsehoods. "

and tell me about it.
You have to show malicious intent to defame and or injure.
Pretty well done that to yourself already.
Are you a lawyer?

The header article is just another analysis of what we fairly well never see in the MSM.
It's good to be able to see for ourselves, who exactly are being victimized and the root causes for this miserable mess.
That's the reason for the chaff and wailing and finger pointing and soon to be visited upon us, the rest of the usual spray.

...to have your rants taken seriously the moment you tried to insist that JA's among the Zionist "team". That's why I dismiss your latest post here as false Toady-esqu empty praise.

funny that you think it's so clever.
Old stuff in counter intelligence to enable infiltration.


Sheesh

because it's what this issue is about.
Israel always takes and demands more.

Either you debate in a bonafide manner about the "zionist" comments on the article's content or you get dismissed as an arch-bigot troll.

I want to see if you had read the lead article.
And what you think the errors in it may be.

Ignorant "pundits"! This article seems to ignore the "three no's of Khartoum"and Oslo!

how can we 'ignore the "three no's' when they are unknown.

That's how you've got yourself a perpetual excuse to not know. Aside from writing style, this failure to look up via Google is what sets you apart from your pals like 'nessie' and 'TW'.

he Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967 was issued at the conclusion of a meeting between the leaders of eight Arab countries in the wake of the Six-Day War.

The resolution contains in paragraph 3 what became known as "the three nos" of Arab-Israel relations at that time.

1. No peace with Israel
2. No recognition of Israel
3. No negotiations with Israel

has *anyone* read the lead article?
sheesh.
Can you talk about it at all?

Bible, Revised Standard. 2 Kings, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


2 Kings, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 135 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


2 Kings, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings


2 Kings, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.01




1: After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
2: Now Ahazi'ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Sama'ria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness."
3: But the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sama'ria, and say to them, `Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron?'
4: Now therefore thus says the LORD, `You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'" So Eli'jah went.
5: The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"
6: And they said to him, "There came a man to meet us, and said to us, `Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but shall surely die.'"
7: He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?"
8: They answered him, "He wore a garment of haircloth, with a girdle of leather about his loins." And he said, "It is Eli'jah the Tishbite."
9: Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Eli'jah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "O man of God, the king says, `Come down.'"
10: But Eli'jah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
11: Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he went up and said to him, "O man of God, this is the king's order, `Come down quickly!'"
12: But Eli'jah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
13: Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Eli'jah, and entreated him, "O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.
14: Lo, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight."
15: Then the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So he arose and went down with him to the king,
16: and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, -- is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? -- therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'"
17: So he died according to the word of the LORD which Eli'jah had spoken. Jeho'ram, his brother, became king in his stead in the second year of Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, because Ahazi'ah had no son.
18: Now the rest of the acts of Ahazi'ah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.02




1: Now when the LORD was about to take Eli'jah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Eli'jah and Eli'sha were on their way from Gilgal.
2: And Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Eli'sha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
3: And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."
4: Eli'jah said to him, "Eli'sha, tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.
5: The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he answered, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."
6: Then Eli'jah said to him, "Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on.
7: Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went, and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.
8: Then Eli'jah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.
9: When they had crossed, Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." And Eli'sha said, "I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit."
10: And he said, "You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if you do not see me, it shall not be so."
11: And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Eli'jah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12: And Eli'sha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces.
13: And he took up the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
14: Then he took the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Eli'jah?" And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other; and Eli'sha went over.
15: Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him over against them, they said, "The spirit of Eli'jah rests on Eli'sha." And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.
16: And they said to him, "Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; pray, let them go, and seek your master; it may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send."
17: But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, "Send." They sent therefore fifty men; and for three days they sought him but did not find him.
18: And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho, and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, Do not go?"
19: Now the men of the city said to Eli'sha, "Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful."
20: He said, "Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.
21: Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it, and said, "Thus says the LORD, I have made this water wholesome; henceforth neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it."
22: So the water has been wholesome to this day, according to the word which Eli'sha spoke.
23: He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"
24: And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
25: From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and thence he returned to Sama'ria.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.03




1: In the eighteenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, Jeho'ram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned twelve years.
2: He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Ba'al which his father had made.
3: Nevertheless he clung to the sin of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.
4: Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he had to deliver annually to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
5: But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6: So King Jeho'ram marched out of Sama'ria at that time and mustered all Israel.
7: And he went and sent word to Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me; will you go with me to battle against Moab?" And he said, "I will go; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."
8: Then he said, "By which way shall we march?" Jeho'ram answered, "By the way of the wilderness of Edom."
9: So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the beasts which followed them.
10: Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."
11: And Jehosh'aphat said, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?" Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Eli'sha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Eli'jah."
12: And Jehosh'aphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
13: And Eli'sha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."
14: And Eli'sha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, whom I serve, were it not that I have regard for Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you, nor see you.
15: But now bring me a minstrel." And when the minstrel played, the power of the LORD came upon him.
16: And he said, "Thus says the LORD, `I will make this dry stream-bed full of pools.'
17: For thus says the LORD, `You shall not see wind or rain, but that stream-bed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your cattle, and your beasts.'
18: This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD; he will also give the Moabites into your hand,
19: and you shall conquer every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop up all springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."
20: The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.
21: When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out, and were drawn up at the frontier.
22: And when they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
23: And they said, "This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!"
24: But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and attacked the Moabites, till they fled before them; and they went forward, slaughtering the Moabites as they went.
25: And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-har'eseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.
26: When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not.
27: Then he took his eldest son who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.04




1: Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Eli'sha, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."
2: And Eli'sha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."
3: Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels of all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
4: Then go in, and shut the door upon yourself and your sons, and pour into all these vessels; and when one is full, set it aside."
5: So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons; and as she poured they brought the vessels to her.
6: When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not another." Then the oil stopped flowing.
7: She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
8: One day Eli'sha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
9: And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way.
10: Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there."
11: One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.
12: And he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Call this Shu'nammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.
13: And he said to him, "Say now to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."
14: And he said, "What then is to be done for her?" Geha'zi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."
15: He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
16: And he said, "At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant."
17: But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Eli'sha had said to her.
18: When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
19: And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20: And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
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.
22: Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the asses, that I may quickly go to the man of God, and come back again."
23: And he said, "Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." She said, "It will be well."
24: Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, "Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."
25: So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Look, yonder is the Shu'nammite;
26: run at once to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?" And she answered, "It is well."
27: And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Geha'zi came to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
28: Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?"
29: He said to Geha'zi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child."
30: Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.
31: Geha'zi went on ahead and laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awaked."
32: When Eli'sha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
33: So he went in and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
34: Then he went up and lay upon the child, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.
35: Then he got up again, and walked once to and fro in the house, and went up, and stretched himself upon him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
36: Then he summoned Geha'zi and said, "Call this Shu'nammite." So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, "Take up your son."
37: She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground; then she took up her son and went out.
38: And Eli'sha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets."
39: One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.
40: And they poured out for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the pottage, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.
41: He said, "Then bring meal." And he threw it into the pot, and said, "Pour out for the men, that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot.
42: A man came from Ba'al-shal'ishah, bringing the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Eli'sha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat."
43: But his servant said, "How am I to set this before a hundred men?" So he repeated, "Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, `They shall eat and have some left.'"
44: So he set it before them. And they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.05




1: Na'aman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2: Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Na'aman's wife.
3: She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."
4: So Na'aman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel."
5: And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.
6: And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Na'aman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy."
7: And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."
8: But when Eli'sha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you rent your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel."
9: So Na'aman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Eli'sha's house.
10: And Eli'sha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean."
11: But Na'aman was angry, and went away, saying, "Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.
12: Are not Aba'na and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.
13: But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, `Wash, and be clean'?"
14: So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15: Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him; and he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."
16: But he said, "As the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
17: Then Na'aman said, "If not, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for henceforth your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD.
18: In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter."
19: He said to him, "Go in peace." But when Na'aman had gone from him a short distance,
20: Geha'zi, the servant of Eli'sha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Na'aman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."
21: So Geha'zi followed Na'aman. And when Na'aman saw some one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"
22: And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, `There have just now come to me from the hill country of E'phraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.'"
23: And Na'aman said, "Be pleased to accept two talents." And he urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two festal garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they carried them before Geha'zi.
24: And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.
25: He went in, and stood before his master, and Eli'sha said to him, "Where have you been, Geha'zi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere."
26: But he said to him, "Did I not go with you in spirit when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
27: Therefore the leprosy of Na'aman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever." So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.06




1: Now the sons of the prophets said to Eli'sha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
2: Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go."
3: Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
4: So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
5: But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."
6: Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
7: And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.
8: Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."
9: But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there."
10: And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11: And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"
12: And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Eli'sha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber."
13: And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
14: So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
15: When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
16: He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17: Then Eli'sha prayed, and said, "O LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Eli'sha.
18: And when the Syrians came down against him, Eli'sha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray thee, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Eli'sha.
19: And Eli'sha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Sama'ria.
20: As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.
21: When the king of Israel saw them he said to Eli'sha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?"
22: He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."
23: So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.
24: Afterward Ben-ha'dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Sama'ria.
25: And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
26: Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
27: And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
28: And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29: So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
30: When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes -- now he was passing by upon the wall -- and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body --
31: and he said, "May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Eli'sha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."
32: Eli'sha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Eli'sha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
33: And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.07




1: But Eli'sha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Sama'ria."
2: Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
3: Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate; and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here till we die?
4: If we say, `Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."
5: So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.
6: For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us."
7: So they fled away in the twilight and forsook their tents, their horses, and their asses, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
8: And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back, and entered another tent, and carried off things from it, and went and hid them.
9: Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."
10: So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were."
11: Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.
12: And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, `When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"
13: And one of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel that have already perished; let us send and see."
14: So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."
15: So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16: Then the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine meal was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
17: Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.
18: For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Sama'ria,"
19: the captain had answered the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
20: And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.08




1: Now Eli'sha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."
2: So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3: And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
4: Now the king was talking with Geha'zi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Eli'sha has done."
5: And while he was telling the king how Eli'sha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Geha'zi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Eli'sha restored to life."
6: And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."
7: Now Eli'sha came to Damascus. Ben-ha'dad the king of Syria was sick; and when it was told him, "The man of God has come here,"
8: the king said to Haz'ael, "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, `Shall I recover from this sickness?'"
9: So Haz'ael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son Ben-ha'dad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, `Shall I recover from this sickness?'"
10: And Eli'sha said to him, "Go, say to him, `You shall certainly recover'; but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die."
11: And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept.
12: And Haz'ael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child."
13: And Haz'ael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Eli'sha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria."
14: Then he departed from Eli'sha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Eli'sha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."
15: But on the morrow he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Haz'ael became king in his stead.
16: In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, began to reign.
17: He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18: And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
19: Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.
20: In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.
21: Then Joram passed over to Za'ir with all his chariots, and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the E'domites who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.
22: So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
23: Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
24: So Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.
25: In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram, king of Judah, began to reign.
26: Ahazi'ah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
27: He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.
28: He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Haz'ael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians wounded Joram.
29: And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.09




1: Then Eli'sha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2: And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehosh'aphat, son of Nimshi; and go in and bid him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.
3: Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, `Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not tarry."
4: So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
5: And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council; and he said, "I have an errand to you, O commander." And Jehu said, "To which of us all?" And he said, "To you, O commander."
6: So he arose, and went into the house; and the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
7: And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge on Jez'ebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.
8: For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
9: And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah.
10: And the dogs shall eat Jez'ebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her." Then he opened the door, and fled.
11: When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the fellow and his talk."
12: And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, `Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
13: Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, "Jehu is king."
14: Thus Jehu the son of Jehosh'aphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Haz'ael king of Syria;
15: but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Haz'ael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."
16: Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahazi'ah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.
17: Now the watchman was standing 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 a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, `Is it peace?'"
18: So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, `Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back."
19: Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, "Thus the king has said, `Is it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me."
20: Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."
21: Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahazi'ah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22: And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jez'ebel are so many?"
23: Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahazi'ah, "Treachery, O Ahazi'ah!"
24: And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.
25: Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD uttered this oracle against him:
26: `As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons -- says the LORD -- I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and cast him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."
27: When Ahazi'ah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also"; and they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megid'do, and died there.
28: His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
29: In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahazi'ah began to reign over Judah.
30: When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jez'ebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.
31: And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?"
32: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33: He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.
34: Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."
35: But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
36: When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Eli'jah the Tishbite, `In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jez'ebel;
37: and the corpse of Jez'ebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jez'ebel.'"



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.10




1: Now Ahab had seventy sons in Sama'ria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Sama'ria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,
2: "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,
3: select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
4: But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings could not stand before him; how then can we stand?"
5: So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make any one king; do whatever is good in your eyes."
6: Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.
7: And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
8: When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."
9: Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood, and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master, and slew him; but who struck down all these?
10: Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Eli'jah."
11: So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
12: Then he set out and went to Sama'ria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
13: Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahazi'ah king of Judah, and he said, "Who are you?" And they answered, "We are the kinsmen of Ahazi'ah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother."
14: He said, "Take them alive." And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.
15: And when he departed from there, he met Jehon'adab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehon'adab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.
16: And he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD." So he had him ride in his chariot.
17: And when he came to Sama'ria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Sama'ria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke to Eli'jah.
18: Then Jehu assembled all the people, and said to them, "Ahab served Ba'al a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
19: Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba'al, all his worshipers and all his priests; let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Ba'al; whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Ba'al.
20: And Jehu ordered, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Ba'al." So they proclaimed it.
21: And Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Ba'al came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Ba'al, and the house of Ba'al was filled from one end to the other.
22: He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Ba'al." So he brought out the vestments for them.
23: Then Jehu went into the house of Ba'al with Jehon'adab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Ba'al, "Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Ba'al."
24: Then he went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and said, "The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life."
25: So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, "Go in and slay them; let not a man escape." So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Ba'al
26: and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Ba'al, and burned it.
27: And they demolished the pillar of Ba'al, and demolished the house of Ba'al, and made it a latrine to this day.
28: Thus Jehu wiped out Ba'al from Israel.
29: But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and in Dan.
30: And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
31: But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin.
32: In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Haz'ael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
33: from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manas'sites, from Aro'er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.
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?
35: So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria. And Jeho'ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
36: The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Sama'ria was twenty-eight years.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.11




1: Now when Athali'ah the mother of Ahazi'ah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.
2: But Jehosh'eba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahazi'ah, took Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from Athali'ah, so that he was not slain;
3: and he remained with her six years, hid in the house of the LORD, while Athali'ah reigned over the land.
4: But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king's son.
5: And he commanded them, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the sabbath and guard the king's house
6: (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards), shall guard the palace;
7: and the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the sabbath and guard the house of the LORD,
8: shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be slain. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in."
9: The captains did according to all that Jehoi'ada the priest commanded, and each brought his men who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath, and came to Jehoi'ada the priest.
10: And the priest delivered to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the LORD;
11: and the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.
12: Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"
13: When Athali'ah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people;
14: and when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athali'ah rent her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"
15: Then Jehoi'ada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, "Bring her out between the ranks; and slay with the sword any one who follows her." For the priest said, "Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD."
16: So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.
17: And Jehoi'ada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD's people; and also between the king and the people.
18: Then all the people of the land went to the house of Ba'al, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Ba'al before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD.
19: And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.
20: So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athali'ah had been slain with the sword at the king's house.
21: Jeho'ash was seven years old when he began to reign.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.12




1: In the seventh year of Jehu Jeho'ash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.
2: And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.
3: Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
4: Jeho'ash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed -- the money from the assessment of persons -- and the money which a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
5: let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."
6: But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho'ash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
7: Therefore King Jeho'ash summoned Jehoi'ada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house."
8: So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
9: Then Jehoi'ada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
10: And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
11: Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD,
12: and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.
13: But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,
14: for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.
15: And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
16: The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
17: At that time Haz'ael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. But when Haz'ael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
18: Jeho'ash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehosh'aphat and Jeho'ram and Ahazi'ah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own votive gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Haz'ael king of Syria. Then Haz'ael went away from Jerusalem.
19: Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20: His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Jo'ash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
21: It was Jo'zacar the son of Shim'e-ath and Jeho'zabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


2 Kings, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: 2Kgs.13




1: In the twenty-third year of Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, king of Judah, Jeho'ahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned seventeen years.
2: He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.
3: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Haz'ael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-ha'dad the son of Haz'ael.
4: Then Jeho'ahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
5: (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians; and the people of Israel dwelt in their homes as formerly.
6: Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Ashe'rah also remained in Sama'ria.)
7: For there was not left to Jeho'ahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
8: Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
9: So Jeho'ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria; and Jo'ash his son reigned in his stead.
10: In the thirty-seventh year of Jo'ash king of Judah Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned sixteen years.
11: He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.
12: Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amazi'ah king of J

If you have this interest, its time to find a teacher to help you with the things that you obviously don't understand.

Bible, Revised Standard. Micah, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


Micah, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 20 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


Micah, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
Micah, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Mica.01




1: The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Mo'resheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Sama'ria and Jerusalem.
2: Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3: For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4: And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
5: All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Sama'ria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
6: Therefore I will make Sama'ria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations.
7: All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.
8: For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
9: For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
10: Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; in Beth-le-aph'rah roll yourselves in the dust.
11: Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Za'anan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-e'zel shall take away from you its standing place.
12: For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
13: Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
14: Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Mo'resheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
15: I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mare'shah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
16: Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.


Chapter 2
Micah, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Mica.02




1: Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2: They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3: Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, against this family I am devising evil, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
4: In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields."
5: Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
6: "Do not preach" -- thus they preach -- "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."
7: Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
8: But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
9: The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
10: Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
11: If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!
12: I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
13: He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the LORD at their head.


Chapter 3
Micah, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Mica.03




1: And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? --
2: you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;
3: who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.
4: Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
5: Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
6: Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
7: the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
8: But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
9: Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
10: who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.
11: Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."
12: Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.


Chapter 4
Micah, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Mica.04




1: It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,
2: and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3: He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more;
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 has spoken.
5: For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6: In that day, says the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away, and those whom I have afflicted;
7: and the lame I will make the remnant; and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and for evermore.
8: And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
9: Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?
10: Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11: Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
12: But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
13: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples, and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.


Chapter 5
Micah, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Mica.05




1: Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel.
2: But you, O Bethlehem Eph'rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
3: Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.
4: And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
5: And this shall be peace, when the Assyrian comes into our land and treads upon our soil, that we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;
6: they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.
7: Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers upon the grass, which tarry not for men nor wait for the sons of men.
8: And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
9: Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
10: And in that day, says the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;
11: and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
12: and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;
13: and I will cut off your images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;
14: and I will root out your Ashe'rim from among you and destroy your cities.
15: And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance upon the nations that did not obey.


Chapter 6
Micah, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Mica.06




1: Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2: Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
3: "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
4: For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5: O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Be'or answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."
6: "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
7: Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
8: He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
9: The voice of the LORD cries to the city -- and it is sound wisdom to fear thy name: "Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
10: Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
11: Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12: Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13: Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.
14: You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.
15: You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
16: For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples."


Chapter 7
Micah, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Mica.07




1: Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.
2: The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.
3: Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
4: The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
5: Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
6: for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
7: But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
8: Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
9: I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.
10: Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
11: A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
12: In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13: But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
14: Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
15: As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.
16: The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
17: they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.
18: Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.
19: He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
20: Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Naso Numbers 4:21 - 7:89

Bible, Revised Standard. Romans, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


Romans, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 60 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


Romans, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
Romans, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Roma.01




1: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
2: which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
3: the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
4: and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
5: through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
6: including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;
7: To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8: First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
9: For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,
10: asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
11: For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
12: that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
13: I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14: I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish:
15: so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16: For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17: For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, "He who through faith is righteous shall live."
18: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
19: For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20: Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
21: for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
22: Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23: and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
24: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25: because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
26: For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
27: and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28: And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
29: They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,
30: slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31: foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32: Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.


Chapter 2
Romans, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Roma.02




1: Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
2: We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things.
3: Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
4: Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
5: But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
6: For he will render to every man according to his works:
7: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
8: but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
9: There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
10: but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
11: For God shows no partiality.
12: All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13: For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
14: When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
15: They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them
16: on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
17: But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God
18: and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,
19: and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20: a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth --
21: you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
22: You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23: You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24: For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
25: Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
26: So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27: Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
28: For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
29: He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men but from God.


Chapter 3
Romans, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Roma.03




1: Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
2: Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.
3: What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
4: By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, "That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged."
5: But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
6: By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
7: But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
8: And why not do evil that good may come? -- as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
9: What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,
10: as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
11: no one understands, no one seeks for God.
12: All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong; no one does good, not even one."
13: "Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
14: "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
15: "Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16: in their paths are ruin and misery,
17: and the way of peace they do not know."
18: "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19: Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
20: For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
21: But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,
22: the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction;
23: since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24: they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
25: whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;
26: it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
27: Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
28: For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.
29: Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
30: since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.
31: Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.


Chapter 4
Romans, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Roma.04




1: What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
2: For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3: For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."
4: Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.
5: And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
6: So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7: "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
8: blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."
9: Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
10: How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
11: He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
12: and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13: The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
14: If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
15: For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
16: That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,
17: as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
18: In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be."
19: He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
20: No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
21: fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
22: That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."
23: But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone,
24: but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
25: who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.


Chapter 5
Romans, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Roma.05




1: Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2: Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3: More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4: and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5: and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.
6: While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7: Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.
8: But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
9: Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
10: For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11: Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.
12: Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned --
13: sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
14: Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
15: But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
16: And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.
17: If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
18: Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.
19: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.
20: Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
21: so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


Chapter 6
Romans, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Roma.06




1: What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2: By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4: We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5: For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6: We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7: For he who has died is freed from sin.
8: But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
9: For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10: The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
11: So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12: Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13: Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14: For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15: What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16: Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17: But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
18: and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19: I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.
20: When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21: But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.
22: But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.
23: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Chapter 7
Romans, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Roma.07




1: Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the law -- that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
2: Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
3: Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
4: Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5: While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
6: But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
7: What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
8: But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
9: I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
10: the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
11: For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
12: So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
13: Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
14: We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16: Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
17: So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
18: For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
19: For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20: Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
21: So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
22: For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,
23: but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
24: Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25: Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.


Chapter 8
Romans, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: Roma.08




1: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3: For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4: in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5: For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6: To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7: For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;
8: and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9: But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10: But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.
11: If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.
12: So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh --
13: for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
14: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15: For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!"
16: it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17: and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
18: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
19: For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;
20: for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;
21: because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22: We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now;
23: and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
24: For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
25: But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26: Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
27: And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28: We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.
29: For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
30: And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31: What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?
32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?
33: Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;
34: who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?
35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36: As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37: No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38: For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39: nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Chapter 9
Romans, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: Roma.09




1: I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,
2: that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3: For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.
4: They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
5: to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.
6: But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
7: and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."
8: This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.
9: For this is what the promise said, "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."
10: And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
11: though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,
12: she was told, "The elder will serve the younger."
13: As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14: What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!
15: For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16: So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.
17: For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."
18: So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.
19: You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
20: But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?"
21: Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?
22: What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,
23: in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,
24: even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
25: As indeed he says in Hose'a, "Those who were not my people I will call `my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call `my beloved.'"
26: "And in the very place where it was said to them, `You are not my people,' they will be called `sons of the living God.'"
27: And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;
28: for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch."
29: And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us children, we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomor'rah."
30: What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;
31: but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
32: Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33: as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."


Chapter 10
Romans, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: Roma.10




1: Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
2: I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
3: For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
4: For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified.
5: Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it.
6: But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down)
7: or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8: But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach);
9: because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10: For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.
11: The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame."
12: For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him.
13: For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."
14: But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?
15: And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"
16: But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?"
17: So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.
18: But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."
19: Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."
20: Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."
21: But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."


Chapter 11
Romans, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: Roma.11




1: I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2: God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Eli'jah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
3: "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."
4: But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba'al."
5: So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
6: But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
7: What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
8: as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day."
9: And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them;
10: let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs for ever."
11: So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
12: Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
13: Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
14: in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
15: For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
16: If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17: But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree,
18: do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.
19: You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
20: That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
21: For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22: Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
23: And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
24: For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.
25: Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in,
26: and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";
27: "and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
28: As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
29: For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
30: Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
31: so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.
32: For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.
33: O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
34: "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
35: "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
36: For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.


Chapter 12
Romans, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: Roma.12




1: I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2: Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
3: For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.
4: For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,
5: so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
6: Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
7: if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching;
8: he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
9: Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;
10: love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
11: Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.
12: Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
13: Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.
14: Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
15: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
16: Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.
17: Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.
18: If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.
19: Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
20: No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
21: Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.


Chapter 13
Romans, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: Roma.13




1: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
2: Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
3: For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
4: for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
5: Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
6: For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
7: Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
8: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9: The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
10: Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11: Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
12: the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
13: let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
14: But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.


Chapter 14
Romans, chapter 14


Compare with King James Version: Roma.14




1: As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions.
2: One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.
3: Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him.
4: Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.
5: One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
6: He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
7: None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
8: If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
9: For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10: Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;
11: for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."
12: So each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13: Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
14: I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.
15: If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.
16: So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
17: For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;
18: he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19: Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
20: Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what he eats;
21: it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.
22: The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves.
23: But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.


Chapter 15
Romans, chapter 15


Compare with King James Version: Roma.15




1: We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
2: let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.
3: For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me."
4: For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
5: May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
6: that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7: Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
8: For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
9: and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name";
10: and again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people";
11: and again, "Praise the Lord, all Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him";
12: and further Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse shall come, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope."
13: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
14: I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
15: But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
16: to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17: In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
18: For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19: by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyr'icum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ,
20: thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,
21: but as it is written, "They shall see who have never been told of him, and they shall understand who have never heard of him."
22: This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
23: But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,
24: I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little.
25: At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.
26: For Macedo'nia and Acha'ia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem;
27: they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
28: When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them what has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain;
29: and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
30: I appeal to you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
31: that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
32: so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
33: The God of peace be with you all. Amen.


Chapter 16
Romans, chapter 16


Compare with King James Version: Roma.16




1: I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cen'chre-ae,
2: that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well.
3: Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
4: who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;
5: greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epae'netus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.
6: Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you.
7: Greet Androni'cus and Ju'nias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
8: Greet Amplia'tus, my beloved in the Lord.
9: Greet Urba'nus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
10: Greet Apel'les, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobu'lus.
11: Greet my kinsman Hero'dion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcis'sus.
12: Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphae'na and Trypho'sa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
13: Greet Rufus, eminent in the Lord, also his mother and mine.
14: Greet Asyn'critus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pat'robas, Hermas, and the brethren who are with them.
15: Greet Philol'ogus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olym'pas, and all the saints who are with them.
16: Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17: I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.
18: For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
19: For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil;
20: then the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
21: Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosip'ater, my kinsmen.
22: I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord.
23: Ga'ius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Eras'tus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
25: Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages
26: but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith --
27: to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In their story, there are Jews, Romans, Greeks but no Arabs. Why? Because they hadn't gotten there yet from Arabia. I guess that indigeneous claim by the Palestinians is more pure nonsense.

Bible, Revised Standard. Ephesians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


Ephesians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 20 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


Ephesians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
Ephesians, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.01




1: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus:
2: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
4: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
5: He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
6: to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
7: In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
8: which he lavished upon us.
9: For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ
10: as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11: In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,
12: we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.
13: In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14: which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
15: For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
16: I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18: having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19: and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, according to the working of his great might
20: which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21: far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come;
22: and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,
23: which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all.


Chapter 2
Ephesians, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.02




1: And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins
2: in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
3: Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
4: But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,
5: even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6: and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7: that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God --
9: not because of works, lest any man should boast.
10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
11: Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands --
12: remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ.
14: For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility,
15: by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
16: and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end.
17: And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near;
18: for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
19: So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20: built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
21: in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
22: in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.


Chapter 3
Ephesians, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.03




1: For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles --
2: assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,
3: how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.
4: When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,
5: which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6: that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
7: Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given me by the working of his power.
8: To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9: and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things;
10: that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.
11: This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12: in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.
13: So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
14: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15: from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
16: that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,
17: and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18: may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19: and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.
20: Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think,
21: to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.


Chapter 4
Ephesians, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.04




1: I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2: with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,
3: eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4: There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
5: one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6: one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.
7: But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
8: Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
9: (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10: He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11: And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
12: to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13: until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
14: so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.
15: Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
16: from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.
17: Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
18: they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;
19: they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.
20: You did not so learn Christ! --
21: assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.
22: Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,
23: and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24: and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25: Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
26: Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27: and give no opportunity to the devil.
28: Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.
29: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
30: And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31: Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,
32: and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.


Chapter 5
Ephesians, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.05




1: Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2: And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
3: But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.
4: Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
5: Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7: Therefore do not associate with them,
8: for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
9: (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
10: and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
11: Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
12: For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
13: but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.
14: Therefore it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
15: Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
16: making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
17: Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18: And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
19: addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart,
20: always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
21: Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22: Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23: For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24: As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
25: Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26: that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27: that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
28: Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29: For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30: because we are members of his body.
31: "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
32: This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
33: however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.


Chapter 6
Ephesians, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Ephe.06




1: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2: "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
3: "that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth."
4: Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
5: Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ;
6: not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
7: rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men,
8: knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
9: Masters, do the same to them, and forbear threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
10: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11: Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12: For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13: Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14: Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15: and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace;
16: besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one.
17: And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18: Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
19: and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
20: for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
21: Now that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tych'icus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.
22: I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.
23: Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
24: Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love undying.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, at least he likes one Jew! Its an improvement.

Bible, Revised Standard. 2 Thessalonians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


2 Thessalonians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 10 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


2 Thessalonians, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
2 Thessalonians, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 2The.01




1: Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2: Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3: We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
4: Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
5: This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering --
6: since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
7: and to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
8: inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9: They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
10: when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
11: To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
12: so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


Chapter 2
2 Thessalonians, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 2The.02




1: Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren,
2: not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
3: Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition,
4: who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
5: Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
6: And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
7: For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
8: And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.
9: The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders,
10: and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11: Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
12: so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13: But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
14: To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15: So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.
16: Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
17: comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.


Chapter 3
2 Thessalonians, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 2The.03




1: Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as it did among you,
2: and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.
3: But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from evil.
4: And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things which we command.
5: May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
6: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
7: For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,
8: we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
9: It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.
10: For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.
11: For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.
12: Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.
13: Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.
14: If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
15: Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
16: Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
17: I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the mark in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.
18: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notwithstanding the nessiesque revisionist mendacity, it's hard to imagine how all those Jews, Samaritans, Romans, Greeks -- who were perfectly happy with their own cultures and identities -- would crave a Palestinian identity and culture. In effect 'nessie' is commiting a historical genocide of sorts on Israel's indigenous Jews and Samaritans.

Is Toady haGoy Baali Tchuva?

Bible, Revised Standard. 2 Timothy, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version [a machine-readable transcription]
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


2 Timothy, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version [a machine-readable transcription]
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 15 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


2 Timothy, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
2 Timothy, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: 2Tim.01




1: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2: To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3: I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers.
4: As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
5: I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lo'is and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you.
6: Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands;
7: for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.
8: Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,
9: who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago,
10: and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
11: For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,
12: and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
13: Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus;
14: guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
15: You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among them Phy'gelus and Hermog'enes.
16: May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiph'orus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains,
17: but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me --
18: may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day -- and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.


Chapter 2
2 Timothy, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: 2Tim.02




1: You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
2: and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
3: Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
4: No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him.
5: An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
6: It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
7: Think over what I say, for the Lord will grant you understanding in everything.
8: Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel,
9: the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered.
10: Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.
11: The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him;
12: if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
13: if we are faithless, he remains faithful -- for he cannot deny himself.
14: Remind them of this, and charge them before the Lord to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
15: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
16: Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
17: and their talk will eat its way like gangrene. Among them are Hymenae'us and Phile'tus,
18: who have swerved from the truth by holding that the resurrection is past already. They are upsetting the faith of some.
19: But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."
20: In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.
21: If any one purifies himself from what is ignoble, then he will be a vessel for noble use, consecrated and useful to the master of the house, ready for any good work.
22: So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
23: Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
24: And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing,
25: correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,
26: and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.


Chapter 3
2 Timothy, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: 2Tim.03




1: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
2: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3: inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,
4: treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5: holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
6: For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
7: who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
8: As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith;
9: but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
10: Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
11: my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Ico'nium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
12: Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13: while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
14: But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
15: and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16: All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17: that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.


Chapter 4
2 Timothy, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: 2Tim.04




1: I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
3: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,
4: and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
5: As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.
6: For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come.
7: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
8: Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
9: Do your best to come to me soon.
10: For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessaloni'ca; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
11: Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very useful in serving me.
12: Tych'icus I have sent to Ephesus.
13: When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Tro'as, also the books, and above all the parchments.
14: Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will requite him for his deeds.
15: Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
16: At my first defense no one took my part; all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
17: But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the message fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
18: The Lord will rescue me from every evil and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
19: Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, and the household of Onesiph'orus.
20: Eras'tus remained at Corinth; Troph'imus I left ill at Mile'tus.
21: Do your best to come before winter. Eubu'lus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.
22: The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, if Toady is now religious and is only posting religious stuff, does that explain where all the other "anti-zionist" spam went all of a sudden?

Bible, Revised Standard. Hebrews, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library


| Table of Contents for this work |
| All on-line databases | Etext Center Homepage |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the electronic version


Hebrews, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard version
Bible, Revised Standard

Creation of machine-readable version: Kraft, Robert A.

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: ca. 45 kilobytes
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK


This version available from the University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

Available from: Oxford Text Archive


http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the print version


Hebrews, from The holy Bible, Revised Standard Version
Bible, Revised Standard
Revised Standard Version


Note: Includes Apocrypha
Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

All quotation marks retained as data



English CORDreligionbiblersv non-fiction; prose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revisions to the electronic version
January 1994 corrector John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library
TEI header completed; SGML markup applied.


October 1995 corrector David Seaman
Brought tagging into line with teilite.dtd; added titles to each book; added header for each book.


etextcenter@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1
Hebrews, chapter 1


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.01




1: In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;
2: but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
3: He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4: having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs.
5: For to what angel did God ever say, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?
6: And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."
7: Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."
8: But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom.
9: Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades."
10: And, "Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands;
11: they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment,
12: like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end."
13: But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet"?
14: Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?


Chapter 2
Hebrews, chapter 2


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.02




1: Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
2: For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
3: how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
4: while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will.
5: For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
6: It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him?
7: Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor,
8: putting everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
9: But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.
10: For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.
11: For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12: saying, "I will proclaim thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee."
13: And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Here am I, and the children God has given me."
14: Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
15: and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.
16: For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham.
17: Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.
18: For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.


Chapter 3
Hebrews, chapter 3


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.03




1: Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
2: He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house.
3: Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.
4: (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
5: Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
6: but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.
7: Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice,
8: do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9: where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
10: Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.'
11: As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'"
12: Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
13: But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14: For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
15: while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
16: Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17: And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18: And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19: So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.


Chapter 4
Hebrews, chapter 4


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.04




1: Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.
2: For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
3: For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4: For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
5: And again in this place he said, "They shall never enter my rest."
6: Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
7: again he sets a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
8: For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.
9: So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
10: for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.
11: Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.
12: For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13: And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14: Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
15: For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16: Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.


Chapter 5
Hebrews, chapter 5


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.05




1: For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2: He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
3: Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.
4: And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.
5: So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee";
6: as he says also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchiz'edek."
7: In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.
8: Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;
9: and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
10: being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchiz'edek.
11: About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12: For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;
13: for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child.
14: But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.


Chapter 6
Hebrews, chapter 6


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.06




1: Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2: with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
3: And this we will do if God permits.
4: For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5: and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6: if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.
7: For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
8: But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned.
9: Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.
10: For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
11: And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end,
12: so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13: For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
14: saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
15: And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.
16: Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
17: So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,
18: so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.
19: We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain,
20: where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchiz'edek.


Chapter 7
Hebrews, chapter 7


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.07




1: For this Melchiz'edek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;
2: and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
3: He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.
4: See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the spoils.
5: And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.
6: But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
7: It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
8: Here tithes are received by mortal men; there, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
9: One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
10: for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchiz'edek met him.
11: Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levit'ical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchiz'edek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
12: For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
13: For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.
14: For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
15: This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchiz'edek,
16: who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
17: For it is witnessed of him, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchiz'edek."
18: On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
19: (for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
20: And it was not without an oath.
21: Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but this one was addressed with an oath, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, `Thou art a priest for ever.'"
22: This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.
23: The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;
24: but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues for ever.
25: Consequently he is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
26: For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
27: He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
28: Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.


Chapter 8
Hebrews, chapter 8


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.08




1: Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
2: a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.
3: For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
4: Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
5: They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."
6: But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
8: For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9: not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.
10: This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11: And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
12: For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
13: In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.


Chapter 9
Hebrews, chapter 9


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.09




1: Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
2: For a tent was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place.
3: Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies,
4: having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5: above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
6: These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the outer tent, performing their ritual duties;
7: but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.
8: By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary is not yet opened as long as the outer tent is still standing
9: (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
10: but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
11: But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
12: he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
13: For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,
14: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
15: Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.
16: For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
17: For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
18: Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.
19: For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20: saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."
21: And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
22: Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
23: Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24: For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
25: Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly with blood not his own;
26: for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27: And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,
28: so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.


Chapter 10
Hebrews, chapter 10


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.10




1: For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.
2: Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin.
3: But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.
4: For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
5: Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired, but a body hast thou prepared for me;
6: in burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure.
7: Then I said, `Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."
8: When he said above, "Thou hast neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
9: then he added, "Lo, I have come to do thy will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
10: And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11: And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12: But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13: then to wait until his enemies should be made a stool for his feet.
14: For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15: And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16: "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
17: then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their misdeeds no more."
18: Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19: Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20: by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
21: and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22: let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23: Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;
24: and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
25: not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
26: For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27: but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.
28: A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29: How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
30: For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32: But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
33: sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
34: For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
35: Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
36: For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.
37: "For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry;
38: but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
39: But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.


Chapter 11
Hebrews, chapter 11


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.11




1: Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2: For by it the men of old received divine approval.
3: By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.
4: By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received approval as righteous, God bearing witness by accepting his gifts; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking.
5: By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.
6: And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
7: By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
8: By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
9: By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
10: For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11: By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
12: Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
13: These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
14: For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
15: If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16: But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
17: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,
18: of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."
19: He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; hence, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
20: By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
21: By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
22: By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his burial.
23: By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
24: By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25: choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
26: He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.
27: By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
28: By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.
29: By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
30: By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
31: By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given friendly welcome to the spies.
32: And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets --
33: who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34: quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
35: Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life.
36: Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment.
37: They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated --
38: of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39: And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,
40: since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.


Chapter 12
Hebrews, chapter 12


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.12




1: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
2: looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3: Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
4: In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
5: And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? -- "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by him.
6: For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."
7: It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8: If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9: Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
10: For they disciplined us for a short time at their pleasure, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
11: For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12: Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
13: and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
14: Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
15: See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;
16: that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
17: For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
18: For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,
19: and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them.
20: For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."
21: Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
22: But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
23: and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24: and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.
25: See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
26: His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven."
27: This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.
28: Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;
29: for our God is a consuming fire.


Chapter 13
Hebrews, chapter 13


Compare with King James Version: Hebr.13




1: Let brotherly love continue.
2: Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3: Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.
4: Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
5: Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never fail you nor forsake you."
6: Hence we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?"
7: Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.
8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
9: Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited their adherents.
10: We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
11: For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
12: So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
13: Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.
14: For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come.
15: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
16: Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
17: Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you.
18: Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
19: I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20: Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
21: equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22: I appeal to you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
23: You should understand that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.
24: Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.
25: Grace be with all of you. Amen.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, if Toady is now religious and is only posting religious stuff, does that explain where all the other "anti-zionist" spam went all of a sudden?

Exodus
1,1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: 1,2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 1,3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 1,4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 1,5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. 1,6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 1,7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. {P}

1,8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 1,9 And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; 1,10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' 1,11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 1,12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel. 1,13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 1,14 And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour. 1,15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah; 1,16 and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.' 1,17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 1,18 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?' 1,19 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 midwife come unto them.' 1,20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 1,21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses. 1,22 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.' {P}

2,1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2,2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 2,3 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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 2,4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 2,5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 2,6 And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.' 2,7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?' 2,8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother. 2,9 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. 2,10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.' 2,11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 2,12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 2,13 And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?' 2,14 And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.' 2,15 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. 2,16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 2,17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 2,18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?' 2,19 And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.' 2,20 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.' 2,21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 2,22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.' {P}

2,23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days 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. 2,24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 2,25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them. {S} 3,1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 3,2 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. 3,3 And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.' 3,4 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.' 3,5 And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.' 3,6 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. 3,7 And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains; 3,8 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 Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 3,9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 3,10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.' 3,11 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?' 3,12 And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the 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.' 3,13 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?' 3,14 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.' 3,15 And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: The LORD, the 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. 3,16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: I have surely remembered you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. 3,17 And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 3,18 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, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us. And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 3,19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, except by a mighty hand. 3,20 And I will put forth 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. 3,21 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; 3,22 but every woman shall ask 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.' 4,1 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.' 4,2 And the LORD said unto him: 'What is that in thy hand?' And he said: 'A rod.' 4,3 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. 4,4 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail--and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand-- 4,5 that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.' 4,6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him: 'Put now thy hand into thy bosom.' And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. 4,7 And He said: 'Put thy hand back into thy bosom.--And he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.-- 4,8 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. 4,9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even 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.' 4,10 And Moses said unto the LORD: 'Oh Lord, I am not a man of words, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.' 4,11 And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD? 4,12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.' 4,13 And he said: 'Oh Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.' 4,14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? 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. 4,15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 4,16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him in God's stead. 4,17 And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.' {P}

4,18 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 that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.' And Jethro said to Moses: 'Go in peace.' 4,19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: 'Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.' 4,20 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. 4,21 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. 4,22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first-born. 4,23 And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.'-- 4,24 And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 4,25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.' 4,26 So He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the circumcision.' {P}

4,27 And the LORD said to Aaron: 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. 4,28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD wherewith He had sent him, and all the signs wherewith He had charged him. 4,29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. 4,30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 4,31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had remembered the children of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. 5,1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.' 5,2 And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.' 5,3 And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.' 5,4 And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.' 5,5 And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?' 5,6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying: 5,7 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 5,8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 5,9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.' 5,10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: 'Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw. 5,11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.' 5,12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 5,13 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' 5,14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?' 5,15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: 'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 5,16 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.' 5,17 But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD. 5,18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.' 5,19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were set on mischief, when they said: 'Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily task.' 5,20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh; 5,21 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.' 5,22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me? 5,23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all.' 6,1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.' {S} 6,2 And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: 'I am the LORD; 6,3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name YHWH I made Me not known to them. 6,4 And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 6,5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered My covenant. 6,6 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 deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments; 6,7 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, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 6,8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am the LORD.' 6,9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage. {P}

6,10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 6,11 'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.' 6,12 And Moses spoke 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?' {P}

6,13 And the LORD spoke 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. {S} 6,14 These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. 6,15 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. 6,16 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 a hundred thirty and seven years. 6,17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 6,18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 6,19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 6,20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. 6,21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 6,22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 6,23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 6,24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 6,25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families. 6,26 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 hosts.' 6,27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron. 6,28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt, {S} 6,29 that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'I am the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee.' 6,30 And Moses said before the LORD: 'Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?' {P}

7,1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 7,2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 7,3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 7,4 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My hosts, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments. 7,5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.' 7,6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7,7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh. {P}

7,8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 7,9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.' 7,10 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. 7,11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts. 7,12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 7,13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. {S} 7,14 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuseth to let the people go. 7,15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 7,16 And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the 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 hast not hearkened; 7,17 thus saith the LORD: In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD--behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 7,18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.' {S} 7,19 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.' 7,20 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. 7,21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 7,22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. 7,23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. 7,24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 7,25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river. {P}

7,26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 7,27 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. 7,28 And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs. 7,29 And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.' 8,1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.' 8,2 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 8,3 And the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 8,4 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the LORD, that He take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.' 8,5 And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over me; against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?' 8,6 And he said: 'Against 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. 8,7 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.' 8,8 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the LORD concerning the frogs, which He had brought upon Pharaoh. 8,9 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 8,10 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. 8,11 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. {S} 8,12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.' 8,13 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. 8,14 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast. 8,15 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 spoken. {S} 8,16 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. 8,17 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. 8,18 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end that thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 8,19 And I will put a division between My people and thy people--by to-morrow shall this sign be.' 8,20 And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. 8,21 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said: 'Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.' 8,22 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, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? 8,23 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.' 8,24 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; entreat for me.' 8,25 And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.' 8,26 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 8,27 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. 8,28 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go. {P}

9,1 Then the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 9,2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 9,3 behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. 9,4 And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.' 9,5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying: 'Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.' 9,6 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. 9,7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go. {P}

9,8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. 9,9 And it shall become small dust over 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.' 9,10 And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. 9,11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 9,12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses. {S} 9,13 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 9,14 For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like Me in all the earth. 9,15 Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. 9,16 But in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee My power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth. 9,17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them go? 9,18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 9,19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.' 9,20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses; 9,21 and he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. {P}

9,22 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch forth thy 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.' 9,23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of Egypt. 9,24 So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 9,25 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 broke every tree of the field. 9,26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. 9,27 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. 9,28 Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.' 9,29 And Moses said unto him: 'As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread forth my hands unto the LORD; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is the LORD'S. 9,30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.'-- 9,31 And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. 9,32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late.-- 9,33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread forth his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. 9,34 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. 9,35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses. {P}

10,1 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 show these My signs in the midst of them; 10,2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am the LORD.' 10,3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me. 10,4 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; 10,5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one shall not 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; 10,6 and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day.' And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh. 10,7 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?' 10,8 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?' 10,9 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 we will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.' 10,10 And he said unto them: 'So be the LORD with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones; see ye that evil is before your face. 10,11 Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.' And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. {S} 10,12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy 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.' 10,13 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 the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 10,14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 10,15 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, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 10,16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. 10,17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.' 10,18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 10,19 And the LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt. 10,20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go. {P}

10,21 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.' 10,22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 10,23 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. 10,24 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.' 10,25 And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. 10,26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a 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.' 10,27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. 10,28 And Pharaoh said unto him: 'Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die.' 10,29 And Moses said: 'Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more.' {P}

11,1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I bring 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. 11,2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.' 11,3 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. {S} 11,4 And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt; 11,5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 11,6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more. 11,7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. 11,8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down 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 hot anger. {S} 11,9 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.' 11,10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land. {S} 12,1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 12,2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 12,3 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 their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; 12,4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 12,5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats; 12,6 and ye shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk. 12,7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 12,8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 12,9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. 12,10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 12,11 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. 12,12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. 12,13 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 there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 12,14 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. 12,15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit 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. 12,16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. 12,17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever. 12,18 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. 12,19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land. 12,20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.' {P}

12,21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. 12,22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 12,23 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. 12,24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 12,25 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. 12,26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this service? 12,27 that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for that He 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. 12,28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {S} 12,29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. 12,30 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. 12,31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said: 'Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. 12,32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.' 12,33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said: 'We are all dead men.' 12,34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 12,35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. 12,36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians. {P}

12,37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children. 12,38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 12,39 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. 12,40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 12,41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the host of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 12,42 It was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the children of Israel throughout their generations. {P}

12,43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof; 12,44 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 12,45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 12,46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 12,47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 12,48 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; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 12,49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.' 12,50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {S} 12,51 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 hosts. {P}

13,1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 13,2 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.' 13,3 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. 13,4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib. 13,5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. 13,6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. 13,7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders. 13,8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 13,9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. 13,10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. {P}

13,11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 13,12 that thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the womb; every firstling that is a male, which thou hast coming of a beast, shall be the LORD'S. 13,13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck; and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem. 13,14 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; 13,15 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 first-born of man, and the first-born of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 13,16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes; for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.' {S} 13,17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by 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.' 13,18 But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 13,19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.' 13,20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 13,21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night: 13,22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people. {P}

14,1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 14,2 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon, over against it shall ye encamp by the sea. 14,3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 14,4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.' And they did so. 14,5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and they said: 'What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 14,6 And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him. 14,7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. 14,8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. 14,9 And 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 Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. 14,10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. 14,11 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 bring us forth out of Egypt? 14,12 Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.' 14,13 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you to-day; for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14,14 The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.' {P}

14,15 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. 14,16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 14,17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 14,18 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.' 14,19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them; 14,20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the one came not near the other all the night. 14,21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 14,22 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. 14,23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 14,24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the LORD looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians. 14,25 And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.' {P}

14,26 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.' 14,27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 14,28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them. 14,29 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. 14,30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore. 14,31 And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD, and in His servant Moses. {P}

15,1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. 15,2 The LORD is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation; this is my God, and I will glorify Him; my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 15,3 The LORD is a man of war, The LORD is His name. 15,4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea, and his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. 15,5 The deeps cover them--they went down into the depths like a stone. 15,6 Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy. 15,7 And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble. 15,8 And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up--the floods stood upright as a heap; the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 15,9 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.' 15,10 Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 15,11 Who is like unto Thee, O LORD, among the mighty? who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 15,12 Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand--the earth swallowed them. 15,13 Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation. 15,14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15,15 Then were the chiefs of Edom affrighted; the mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. 15,16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; by the greatness of Thine arm they are as still as a stone; till Thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over that Thou hast gotten. 15,17 Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of Thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands have established. 15,18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever. 15,19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. {P}

15,20 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. 15,21 And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. {S} 15,22 And Moses led Israel onward 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. 15,23 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. 15,24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: 'What shall we drink?' 15,25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them; 15,26 and He said: 'If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.' {S} 15,27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters. 16,1 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. 16,2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 16,3 and the children of Israel said unto them: 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.' {S} 16,4 Then said the LORD unto Moses: 'Behold, I will cause to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not. 16,5 And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.' 16,6 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; 16,7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that He hath heard your murmurings against the LORD; and what are we, that ye murmur against us?' 16,8 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.' 16,9 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel: Come near before the LORD; for He hath heard your murmurings.' 16,10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke 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. {P}

16,11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 16,12 'I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them, saying: At dusk 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.' 16,13