whole house of Israel bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled 7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation lest you die for the anointing oyl of the LORD is upon you And they did according to the word of Moses 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron saying 9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink thou nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation lest ye die It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations 10 And that ye may put difference between hoâ—y and unholy and between unclean and clean 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses 12 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamâ—r his sons that were left Take the meat-offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire and eat it without leaven beside the altar for it is most holy 13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place because it is thy due and thy sonâ— due of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire for so I am commandâ—d 14 And * Exod. â—9 24 the wave-breast and heave-shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee for they be thy due and thy sons due which are given out of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel 15 The heave-shoulder and the wave-breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat to wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD and it shall be thine and thy sons with thee by a statute for ever as the LORD hath commanded 16 ¶ And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering and behold it was burnt and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron which were left alive saying 17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place seeing it is most holy and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation to make atonement for them before the LORD 18 Behold the bloud of it was not brought in within the holy place ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place * Chap. 6.26 as I commanded 19 And Aaron said unto Moses Behold this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD and such things have befallen me and if I had eaten the sin-offering to day should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD 20 And when Moses heard that he was content CHAP. XI 1 What beasts may 4 and what may not be eaten 9 What fishes 13 What fowls 29 The creeping things which are unclean ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron saying unto them 2 Speak unto the children of Israel saying * Deu. 14.4 Act. 10 1â— These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed and cheweth the cud among the beasts that shall ye eat 4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the hoof as the camel because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean to you 5 And the coney because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you 6 And the hare because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you 7 And * 2 Maâ— 6.18 the swine though he divide the hoof and be cloven-footed yet he cheweth not the cud he is unclean to you 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat and their carcase shall ye not touch they are unclean to you 9 ¶ These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters whatsoever hath fins scales in the waters in the seas in the rivers them shall ye eat 10 And all that have not fins nor scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters and of any living thing which is in the waters they shall be an abomination unto you 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you ye shall not eat of their flesh but you shall have their carcases in abomination 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters that shall be an abomination unto you 13 ¶ And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls they shall not be eaten they are an abomination the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray 14 And the vulture and the kite after his kinde 15 Every raven after his kinde 16 And the owl and the night-hauk and the cuckow and the hauk after his kinde 17 And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl 18 And the swan and the pelican and the gier-eagle 19 And the stork and the heron after her kinde and the lapwing and the bat 20 All fowls that creep going upon all four shall be an abomination unto you 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four which have legs above their feet to leap withal upon the earth 22 Even these of them ye may eat the locust after his kinde and the bald locust after his kinde and the beetle after his kinde and the grashopper after his kinde 23 But all other flying creeping things which have four feet shall be an abomination unto you 24 And for these ye shall be unclean whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even 25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even 26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof and is not cloven-footed nor cheweth the cud are unclean unto you every one that toucheth them shall be unclean 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws among all manner of beasts that go on all four those are unclean unto you whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even 28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even they are unclean unto you 29 ¶ These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth the weasel and the mouse and the tortoise after his kinde 30 And the ferret and the chameleon and the lyzard and the snail and the mole 31 These are unclean to you among all that creep whosoever doth touch them when they be dead shall be unclean until the even 32 And upon whatsoever any of them when they are dead doth fall it shall be unclean whether it be any vessel of wood or raiment or skin or sack whatsoever vessel it be wherein any work is done it must be put into water and it shall be unclean until the even so it shall be cleansed 33 And every earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth whatsoever is in it shall
he is holy unto the LORD 9 And if any man die very suddenly by him and he hath defiled the head of his consecration then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing on the seventh day shall he shave it 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest to the door or the tabernacle of the congregation 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering and make an atonement for him for that he sinned by the dead and shall hallow his head that same day 12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass-offering but the days that were before shall †Heb. fall be lost because his separation was defiled 13 ¶ And this is the law of the Nazarite When the days of his separation are fulfilled he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD one he-lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt-offering and one ew-lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin-offering and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings 15 And a basket of unleavened bread cakes of fine flour mingled with oyl and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oyl and their meat-offering and their drink-offerings 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt-offering 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD with the basket of unleavened bread the priest shall offer also his meat-offering and his drink offering 18 * Act 21.24 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings 19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened water and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite after the hair of his separation is shaven 20 And the priest shall wave them * Exod. 29.27 for a wave-offering before the LORD this is holy for the priest with the wave-breast and heave-shoulder and after that the Nazarite may drink wine 21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation besides that that his hand shall get according to the vow which he vowed so he must do after the law of his separation 22 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons saying On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel saying unto them 24 The LORD bless thee and keep thee 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace 27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel and I will bless them CHAP. VII 1 The offering of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle 10 Their several offerings at the dedication of the altar 89 God speaketh to Moses from the mercy-seat ANd it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully * Exed 40.18 set up the tabernacle and had anointed it and sanctified it and all the instruments thereof both the altar and all the vessels thereof and had anointed them and sanctified them 2 That the princes of Israel heads of the house of their fathers who were the princes of the tribes †Heb. who stood and were over them that were numbred offered 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD six covered wagons and twelve oxen a wagon for two of the princes and for each one an ox and they brought them before the tabernacle 4 And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 5 Take it of them that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt give them unto the Levites to every man according to his service 6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them unto the Levites 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon according to their service 8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari according unto their service under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest 9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders 10 ¶ And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed even the princes offered their offering before the altar 11 And the LORD said unto Moses They shall offer their offering each prince on his da◠for the dedicating of the altar 12 ¶ And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah 13 And his offering was one silver charger the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oyl for a * Levit. 2.1 meat-offering 14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold full of incense 15 One young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering 16 One kid of the goats for a * Levit. 4.23 sin-offering 17 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings two oxen five rams five he-goats five lambs of the first year This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab 18 ¶ On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar prince of Issachar did offer 19 He offered for his offering one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oyl for a meat-offering 20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels full of incense 21 One young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering 22 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering 23 And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings two oxen five rams five he-goats five lambs of the first year This was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar 24 ¶ On the third day Eliab the son of Helon prince of the children of Zebulun did offer 25 His offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver howl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oyl for a meat-offering 26 One golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense 27 One young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering 28 One kid of the goats for a
straitness anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage 10 And the LORD spake unto Moles saying 11 Go in speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt that he let the children of Israel go out of his land 12 And Moses spake before the LORD saying Behold the children of Israel have not hearkned unto me how then shall Pharaoh hear me who am of uncircumcised lips 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt 14 ¶ These be the heads of their fathers houses * Gen. 46.9 1 Chr. 5.3 The sons of Reuben the first born of Israel Hanoch and Pallu Hezron and Carmi these be the families of Reuben 15 * 1 Chr. 4.24 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 16 ¶ And these are the names of * Num. 3. â—â— 1 Chr. 6.1 the sons of Levi according to their generations Gershon and Kohath and Merari And the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years 17 The sons of Gershon Libni and Shimi according to their families 18 And * Num. 26.57 1 Chr. 6.2 the sons of Kohath Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel And the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years 19 And the sons of Merari Mahali and Mushi these are the families of Levi according to their generations 20 And * Ch. 2.2 Num. 26.59 Amram took him Jochebed his fathers sister to wife and she bare him Aaron and Moses And the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years 21 ¶ And the sons of Izhar Korah and Nepheg and Zichri 22 And the sons of Uzziel Mishael and Eizaphan and Zithri 23 And Aaron took him Elisheba daughter of Amminadab sister of Naashon to wife she bare him Nadab Abihu Eleazar and I thamar 24 And the sons of Korah Aâ—lir and Elkanah and Abiasaph these are the families of the Korhites 25 And Eleazar Aarons son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife and * Num. 25.11 she bare him Phineas these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families 26 These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies 27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt these are that Moses and Aaron 28 ¶ And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moes in the land of Egypt 29 That the LORD spake unto Moses saying I am the LORD speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee 30 And Moses said before the LORD Behold I am of uncircumcised lips and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me CHAP. VII 1 Moses is encouraged to go to Pharaoh 7 His aâ—e 8 His rod is turned into a serpent 11 The sorcerers do the like 13 Pharaohs heart is hardned 14 Gods massage to Pharaoh 19 the river is turned into bloud ANd the LORD said unto Moses See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh that he send the children of Israel out of his land 3 And I will harden Pharaohs heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt 4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that I may lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth mine armies and my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great judgements 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch forth mine hand upâ—â— Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them 6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them so did they 7 And Moses was fourscore years old and Aaron fourscore and three years old when they spake unto Pharaoh 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you saying Shew a miracle for you then thou shalt say unto Aaron Take thy rod and caâ—t it before Pharaoh and it shall become a serpent 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 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wifemen and the sorcerers now the magicians of Egypt they also did in like manner with their inchantments 12 For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents but Aarons rod twallowed up their rods 13 And he hardned Pharaohs heart that he hearkned not unto them as the LORD had said 14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Pharaohs heart is hardned he refuseth to let the people go 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning 〈◊〉 he goeth out unto the water and thou shalt stand by the rivers brink against he come and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take into thine hand 16 And thou shalt say unto him The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying Let my people go that they may serve me in the wilderness and behold hitherto thou wouldest not hear 17 Thus saith the LORD In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD behold I will smite with the â—od that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river and they shall be turned to bloud 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die and the river shall stink and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river 19 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses Say unto Aaron Take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt upon their streams upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon all their †Heb gathering of their waters pools of water that they may become bloud and that there may be bloud throughout all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone 20 And Moses and Aaron did so as the LORD commanded and he * Ch. 17.5 lift 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 * Ps 78.44 waters that were in the river were turned into bloud 21 And the fish that was in the river died and the river stunk and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river and there was bloud throughout all the land of Egypt 22 * Wisd 17.7 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their inchantments and Pharaohs heart was hardned
that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people CHAP. XXXI 1 Bezaleel and Aholiab are called and made meet for the work of the tabernacle 12 The observation of the sabbath is again commanded 18 Moses receiveth the two tables ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 See I have called by name Bezaleel the * 1 Chr. â— 20. son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah 3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship 4 To devise cunning works to work in gold in silver and in brass 5 And in cutting of stones to set them and in carving of timber to work in all manner of workmanship 6 And I behold I have given with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan and in the hearts of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom that they may make all that I have commanded thee 7 The tabernacle of the congregation and the ark of the testimony and the mercy-seat that is thereupon and all the †Heb. vessels furniture of the tabernacle 8 And the table and his furniture and the pure candlestick with all his furniture and the altar of incense 9 And the altar of burnt-offering with all his furniture and the laver and his foot 10 And the clothes of service and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to minister in the priests office 11 And the anointing oyl and sweet incense for the holy place according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do 12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel saying Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a signe between me and you throughout your generations that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctifie you 14 * Chap. 20.8 Deut. 5. â—2 Ezek. 20.12 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doeth any work therein that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people 15 Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest †Heb. holiness holy to the LORD whosoever doth any work in the sabbath-day he shall surely be put to death 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant 17 It is a signe between me and the children of Israel for ever for * Gen. 1.31 2. â— in six days the LORD made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed 18 ¶ And he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sâ—nai * Deut. 9.10 two tables of testimony tables of stone written with the finger of God CHAP. XXXII 1 The people in the absence of Moses cause Aaron to make a calf 7 God is angred thereby 11 At the entreaty of Moses he is appeased 15 Moses cometh down with the tables 19 He breaketh them 20 He destroyeth the calf 22 Aarons excuse for himself 25 Moses causeth the idolaters to be slain 30 He prayeth for the people ANd when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him * Act. â— 20 Up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 2 And Aaron said unto them Break off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives of your sons and of your daughters and bring them unto me 3 And all the people brake off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aaron 4 * 1 King 12 2â— Psal 1.6.19 And he received them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a molten calf and they said These be thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 5 And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it and Aaron made proclamation and said To morrow is a feast to the LORD 6 And they rose up early on the morrow and offered burnt-offerings and brought peace-offerings and the * 1 Cor. 10.7 people â—at down to eat and to drink and rose up to play 7 ¶ And the LORD â—aid unto Moses * Deut. â— 1â— Go get thee down for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed thereunto and said These be thy gods O Israel which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 9 And the LORD said unto Moses * Chap. 32.3 Deut. 9.13 I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff-necked people 10 Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I will make of thee a great nation 11 * Psal 106.23 And Moses besought †Heb. the face of the LORD the LORD his God and said LORD why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand 12 * Numb 14.13 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people 13 Remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy servants to whom thou swarest by thine own self and saidâ—t unto them * Gen. 12.7 and 15.7 48.16 I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed and they shall inherit it for ever 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people 15 ¶ And Moses turned and went down from the mount and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand the tables were written on both their sides on the one side and on the other were they written 16 And the * Chap. 31.18 tables were the work of God and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said unto Moses There is a noise of war in the camp 18 And he said It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery neither is it the voice of them that cry for †Heb. â—â—akness being overcome but the noise of them that sing do I hear 19 ¶
the other side thereof 19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch a knop and a flower and three bowls made like almonds in another branch a knop and a flower so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick 20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds his knops and his flowers 21 And a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same according to the six branches going out of it 22 Their knops and their branches were of the same all of it was one beaten work of pure gold 23 And he made his seven lamps and his snuffers and his snuff-dishes of pure gold 24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it and all the vessels thereof 25 ¶ * Ch. 30.1 And he made the incense altar of shittim-wood the length of it was a cubit and the breadâ—h of it a cubit it was four-square and two cubits was the height of it the horns thereof were of the same 26 And he overlaid it with pure gold both the top of it and the sides thereof round about and the horns of it also he made unto it a crown of gold round about 27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof by the two corners of it upon the two sides thereof to be places for the staves to bear it withal 28 And he made the staves of shittim-wood and overlaid them with gold 29 ¶ And he made * Ch. 30.35 the holy anointing oyl and the pure incense of sweet spices according to the work of the apothecary CHAP. XXXVIII 1 The altar of burnt-offering 8 The laver of brass 9 The court 21 The sum of that the people offered ANd * Ch. 27.1 he made the altar of burnt-offering of shittim-wood five cubits was the length thereof and five cubits the breadth thereof it was four-square and three cubits the height thereof 2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it the horns thereof were of the same and he overlaid it with brass 3 And he made all the vessels of the altar the pots and the shovels and the baâ—ons and the flesh-hooks and the sire-pans all the vessels thereof made he of brass 4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of net-work under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it 5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass to be places for the staves 6 And he made the staves of shittim-wood overlaid them with brass 7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal he made the altar hollow with boards 8 ¶ And he made the laver of brass and the foot of it of brass of the ‖ Or brassâ— glasses looking-glasses of the women †Heb. assembling by troupt assembling which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 9 ¶ And he made the court on the south-side south-ward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen an hundred cubits 10 Their pillars were twenty and their brasen sockets twenty the books of the pillars and their fillets were of silver 11 And for the north-side the hangings were an hundred cubits their pillars were twenty and their sockets of brass twenty the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver 12 And for the west-side were hangings of fifty cubits their pillars ten and their sockets ten the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver 13 And for the east-side east-ward fifty cubits 14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three 15 And for the other side of the court-gate on this hand and that hand were hangings of fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three 16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen 17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver and all the pillars of the court woe filleted with silver 18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needle-work of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen and twenty cubits was the length and the height in the breadth was five cubits answerable to the hangings of the court 19 And their pillars were four and their sockets of brass sour their hooks of silver and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver 20 And all the * Ch. 2â— 19 pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about were of brass 21 ¶ This is the sum of the tabernacle even of the tabernacle of testimony as it was counted according to the commandment of Moses for the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the priest 22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah made all that the LORD commanded Moses 23 And with him was Aholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan an engraver and a cunning workman and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and fine linen 24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place even the gold of the offering was twenty and nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary 25 And the silver of them that were numbred of the congregation was an hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary 26 A bekah for †Hâ—b a poâ—l every man that is half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary for every one that went to be numbred from twenty years old and upward for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men 27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the vail an hundred sockets of the hundred talents a talent for a socket 28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their chapiters and filleted them 29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels 30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar 31 And the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court-gate and all the pins of the tabernacle and all the pins of the court round about CHAP. XXXIX 1 The clothes of the service and holy garments 2 The ephod 8 The breast-plate 22 The robe of the ephod 27 The coats mitre and girdle of fine linen 30 The plate of the holy crown 32 All is viewed and
approved by Moses ANd of the blue and purple and scarlet they made clothes of service to do service in the holy place and * Ch. 35 5â—â— 35.19 made the holy garments for Aaron as the LORD commanded Moses 2 And he made the ephod of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen 3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates and cut it into wiers to work it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen with cunning work 4 They made shoulder-pieces for it to couple it together by the two edges was it coupled together 5 And the curious girdle of his ephod that was upon it was of the same according to the work thereof of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen as the LORD commanded Moses 6 ¶ * Ch. 28.9 And they wrought onyx-stones enclosed in ouche of gold graven as signet are graven with the names of the children of Israel 7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod that they should be stones for a * Ch. 28.12 memorial to the children of Israel as the LORD commanded Moses 8 ¶ And he made the breast-plate of cunning work like the work of the ephod of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen 9 It was four-square they made the breast-plate double a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof being doubled 10 And they set in it four rows of stones the first row was a ‖ Or rubâ— sardius a topaz and a carbuncle this was the first row 11 And the second row an emraud a sapphire and a diamond 12 And the third row a ligure an agate and an amethyst 13 And the fourth row a beryl an onyx and a jasper they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings 14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel twelve according to their names like the engravings of a signet every one with his name according to the twelve tribes 15 And they made upon the breast-plate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold 16 And they made two ouches of gold and two gold rings and put the two rings in the two ends of the breast-plate 17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-plate 18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastned in the two ouches and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it 19 And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breast-plate upon the border of it which was on the side of the ephod inward 20 And they made two other golden rings and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath toward the forepart of it over against the other coupling thereof above the curious girdle of the ephod 21 And they did binde the breast-plate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod and that the breast-plate might not be loosed from the ephod as the LORD commanded Moses 22 ¶ And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue 23 And there was a hole in the midst of the robe as the hole of an habergeon with a band round about the hole that it should not rent 24 And they made up on the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet and twined linen 25 And they made * Ch. 23.33 bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe round about between the pomegranates 26 A bell and a pomegranate a bell and a pomegranate round about the hem of the robe to minister in as the LORD commanded Moses 27 ¶ And they made coats of â—â—ne linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons 28 And a mitre of fine linen and goodly bonnets of fine linen and * Ch. 28.42 linen breeches of fine twined linen 29 And a girdle of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet of needle-work as the LORD commanded Moses 30 ¶ And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it a writing like to the engravings of a signet * Ch. 28.36 HOLINESS TO THE LORD 31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue to fasten it on high upon the mitre as the LORD commanded Moses 32 ¶ Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses so did they 33 ¶ And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses the tent and all his furniture his taches his boards his bars and his pillars and his sockets 34 And the covering of rams skins died red and the covering of badgers skins and the vail of the covering 35 The ark of the testimony the staves thereof and the mercy-seat 36 The table and all the vessels thereof and the shew-bread 37 The Pure candlestick with the lamps thereof even with the lamps to be set in order and all the vessels thereof and the oyl for light 38 And the golden altar and the anointing oyl and †Heb. the incense of sweet spiâ—â—â— the sweet incense and the hanging for the tabernacle-door 39 The brasen altar and his grate of brass his staves and all his vessels the laver and his foot 40 The hangings of the court his pillars and his sockets and the hanging for the court-gate his cords and his pins and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation 41 The clothes of service to do service in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons garments to minister in the priests office 42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses so the children of Israel made all the work 43 And Moses did look upon all the work and behold they had done it as the LORD had commanded even so had they done it And Moses blessed them CHAP. XL. 1 The tabernacle is commanded to be reared 9 and anointed 13 Aaron and his sons to be sanctified 16 Moses performeth all things accordingly 34 A cloud covereth the tabernacle ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 On the first day of the first moneth shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation 3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony and cover the ark with the vail 4 And * Ch. 26.35 thou shalt bring the table and set in order †Heb. the order thereof the things that are to be set in order upon it and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light the lamp thereof 5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony and put the
7 And when the sun is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the holy things because it is his food 8 * Exod. 22.21 Ezek. 44.31 That which dieth of it self or is torn with beasts he shall not eat to defile himself therewith I am the LORD 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it and die therefore if they profane it I the LORD do sanctifie them 10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing a sojourner of the priest or an hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing 11 But if the priest buy any foul †Heb. with the purchase of his money with his money he shall eat of it and he that is born in his house they shall eat of his meat 12 If the priests daughter also be married unto †Heb. a man a stranger a stranger she may not eat of an offering of the holy things 13 But if the priests daughter be a widow or divorced and have no childe and is returned unto her fathers house * Chap. 10.14 as in her youth she shall eat of her fathers meat but there shall no stranger eat thereof 14 ¶ And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD 16 Or ‖ Or lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things for I the LORD do sanctifie them 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 18 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say unto them Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel or of the strangers in Israel that will offer his oblation for all his vows and for all his free-will-offerings which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves of the sheep or of the goats 20 * Deut. 15.21 17.1 But whatsoever hath a blemish that shall ye not offer for it shall not be acceptable for you 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow or a free-will-offering in beeves or ‖ Or goats sheep it shall be perfect to be accepted there shall be no blemish therein 22 Blinde or broken or maimed or having a wen or scurvy or scabbed ye shall not offer these unto the LORD nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD 23 Either a bullock or a ‖ Or kid lamb that hath any thing * Chap 21.18 superfluous or lacking in his parts that mayest thou offer for a free-will-offering but for a vow it shall not be accepted 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut neither shall you make any offering thereof in your land 25 Neither from a strangers hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these because their corruption is in them and blemishes be in them they shall not be accepted for you 26 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 27 When a bullock or a sheep or a goat is brought forth then it shall be seven days under the dam and from the eighth day thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD 28 And whether it be cow or ‖ Or she-goat ew ye shall not kill it * Deut. 22.6 and her young both in one day 29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD offer it at your own will 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up ye shall leave * Chap. 7.15 none of it until the morrow I am the LORD 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments and do them I am the LORD 32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name but * Chap. 10.3 I will be hallowed among the children of Israel I am the LORD which hallow you 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD CHAP. XXIII 1 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The sabbath 4 The pass-over 9 The sheaf of first-fruits 15 The feast of pentecost 22 Gleanings to be left for the poor 23 The feast of trumpets 26 The day of atonement 33 The feast of tabernacles ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them Concerning the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations even these are my feasts 3 * Ex. 20.9 Deut. 5.13 Luk. 13.14 Six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest an holy convocation ye shall do no work therein it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings 4 ¶ These are the feasts of the LORD even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim in their seasons 5 * Exod. 12.18 Numb 28.16 In the fourteenth day of the first moneth at even is the LORDS pass over 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same moneth is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD seven days ye must eat unleavened brâ—ad 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days in the seventh day is an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein 9 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 10 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye be come into the land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then ye shall bring a ‖ Or handful †Heb. amer sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD 13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be two tenth-deals of fine flour mingled with oyl an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine the fourth part of an hin 14 And ye shall eat neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears until the self-same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings 15 ¶ And * Deut. 16.9 ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering seven sabbaths shall be compleat 16 Even unto the
the priest shall value him according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him 9 And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy 10 He shall not alter it nor change it a good for a bad or a bad for a good and if he shall at all change beast for beast then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy 11 And if it be any unclean beast of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD then he shall present the beast before the priest 12 And the priest shall value it whether it be good or bad †Heb. according to thy estimation O priest c. as thou valuest it who art the priest so shall it be 13 But if he will at all redeem it then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation 14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctifie his house to be holy unto the LORD then the priest shall estimate it whether it be good or bad as the priest shall estimate it so shall it stand 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it and it shall be his 16 And if a man shall sanctifie unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof ‖ Or the land of an homer c. an homer of barley-seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver 17 If he sanctifie his field from the year of jubile according to thy estimation it shall stand 18 But if he sanctifie his field after the jubile then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain even unto the year of the jubile and it shall be abated from thy estimation 19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it and it shall be assured to him 20 And if he will not redeem the field or if he have sold the field to another man it shall not be redeemed any more 21 But the field when it goeth out in the jubile shall be holy unto the LORD as a field devoted the possession thereof shall be the priests 22 And if a man sanctifie unto the LORD a field which he hath bought which is not of the fields of his possession 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation even unto the year of the jubile and he shall give thine estimation in that day as a holy thing unto the LORD 24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary * Exod. 30.13 Numb 3.47 Ezek. 45.12 twenty gerahs shall be the shekel 26 ¶ Onely the †Heb. first-born c. firstling of the beasts which should be the LORDS firstling no man shall sanctifie it whether it be ox or sheep it is the LORDS 27 And if it be of an unclean beast then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation and shall add a fifth part of it thereto or if it be not redeemed then it shall be sold according to thy estimation 28 * Josh 6.19 Notwithstanding no devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath both of man and beast and of the field of his possession shall be sold or redeemed every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD 29 None devoted which shall be devoted of men shall be redeemed but shall surely be put to death 30 And all the tithe of the land whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree is the LORDS it is holy unto the LORD 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd or of the flock even of whatsoever passeth under the rod the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD 33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad neither shall he change it and if he change it at all then both it and the change thereof shall be holy it shall not be redeemed 34 These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai ¶ The fourth book of Moses called NUMBERS CHAP. I. 1 God commandeth Moses to number the people 5 The princes of the tribes 17 The number of every tribe 47 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord. ANd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tabernacle of the congregation on the first day of the second moneth in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt saying 2 * Exod. 30.12 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel after their families by the house of their fathers with the number of their names every male by their poll 3 From twenty years old and upward all that are able to go forth to war in Israel thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe every one head of the house of his fathers 5 ¶ And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you Of the tribe of Reuben Elizur the son of Shedeur 6 Of Simeon Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai 7 Of Judah Nahshon the son of Amminadab 8 Of Issachar Nethaneel the son of Zuar 9 Of Zebulun Eliab the son of Helon 10 Of the children of Joseph of Ephraim Elishama the son of Ammihud of Manasseh Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur 11 Of Benjamin Abidan the son of Gideoni 12 Of Dan Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai 13 Of Asher Pagiel the son of Ocran 14 Of Gad Eliasaph the son of Deuel 15 Of Naphtali Ahira the son of Enan 16 These were the renowned of the congregation princes of the tribes of their fathers heads of thousands in Israel 17 ¶ And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second moneth and they declared their pedegrees after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward by their poll 19 As the LORD commanded Moses so he numbred them in the wilderness of Sinai 20 And the children of Reuben Israels eldest son by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names by their poll every male from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war 21 Those that were
upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue cover it with a covering of badgers skins and shall put to the staves thereof 12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministery wherewith they minister in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of badgers skins and shall put them on a bar 13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth thereon 14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith they minister about it even the censers the flesh-hooks and the shovels and the ‖ Or. bowlâ— basons all the vessels of the altar and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers skins and put to the staves of it 15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary as the camp is to set forward after that the sons of Koâ—ath shall come to bear it but they shall not touch any holy thing lest they die These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation 16 ¶ And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oyl for the light and the * Exod. 3â— 34 sweet incense and the daily meat-offering and the * Exod. 30.23 anointing oyl and the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that therein is in the sanctuary and in the vessels thereof 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites 19 But thus do unto them that they may live and not die when they approach unto the most holy things Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden 20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered lest they die 21 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon throughout the houses of their fathers by their families 23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them all that enter in †Heb. to war the warfare to perform the service to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites to serve and for ‖ Or carriage burdens 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of the congregation his covering and the covering of the badgers skins that is above upon it and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 26 And the hangings of the court and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and their cords and all the instruments of their service and all that is made for them so shall they serve 27 At the †Heb. mouth appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites in all their burdens and in all their service and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest 29 ¶ As for the sons of Merari thou shalt number them after their families by the house of their fathers 30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them every one that entreth in to the †Heb. warfare service to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation 31 And this is the charge of their burden according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation * Exod. 26.15 the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and sookets thereof 32 And the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords with all their instruments and with all their services and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest 34 ¶ And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbred the sons of the Kohathites after their families and after the house of their fathers 35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entreth in to the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 36 And those that were numbred of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty 37 These were they that were numbred of the families of the Kohathites all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses 38 And those that were numbred of the sons of Gershon throughout their families and by the house of their fathers 39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entreth in to the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 40 Even those that were numbred of them throughout their families by the houses of their fathers were two thousand and fix hundred and thirty 41 These are they that were numbred of the families of the sons of Gershon of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD 42 ¶ And those that were numbred of the families of the sons of Merari throughout their families by the house of their fathers 43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entreth in to the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 44 Even those that were numbred of them after their families were three thousand and two hundred 45 These be those that were numbred of the families of the sons of Merari whom Moses and Aaron numbred according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses 46 All those that were numbred of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbred after their families and after the house of their fathers 47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that came to do the service of the ministery and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation 48 Even those that were numbred of them were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore 49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbred by the hand of Moses every one according to his service and according to his burden thus were they numbred of him as the LORD
lambs of the first year twelve with their meat-offering and the kids of the goats for sin-offering twelve 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings were twenty and four bullocks the rams sixty the he-goats sixty the lambs of the first year sixty This was the dedication of the altar after that it was anointed 89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with ‖ That is God him then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims and he spake unto him CHAP. VIII 1 How the lamps are to be lighted 5 The consecration of the Levites 23 The age and time of their service ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him When thou * Exod. 25.37 and 40.25 lightest the lamps the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick 3 And Aaron did so he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick as the LORD commanded Moses 4 * Ex. 25.31 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold unto the shaft thereof unto the flowers thereof was * Exod. 25.18 beaten work according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses so he made the candlestick 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them to cleanse them Sprinkle water of purifying upon them and †Heb. let them cause a rasour to pass over c. let them shave all their flesh and let them wash their clothes and so make themselves clean 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat-offering even fine flour mingled with oyl and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering 9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites 11 And â—aron shall †Heb. wave offer the Levites before the LORD for an †Heb. wave-offering offering of the children of Israel that †Heb. they may be to execute c. they may execute the service of the LORD 12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks and thou shalt offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering unto the LORD to make an atonement for the Levites 13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons and offer them for an offering unto the LORD 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel and the Levites shall be * Chap. 3.45 mine 15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt cleanse them and offer them for an offering 16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel in stead of such as open every womb even in stead of the first-born of all the children of Israel have I taken them unto me 17 * Exod. 13.2 Chap. 3.13 Luk. 2.23 For all the first-born of the children of Israel are mine both man and beast on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for my self 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel 19 And I have given the Levites as †Heb. given a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation and to make an atonement for the children of Israel that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary 20 And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites so did the children of Israel uâ—to them 21 And the Levites were purified and they washed their clothes and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them 22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron and before his sons as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites so did they unto them 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in †Heb. to war the warfare of c. to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall †Heb. return from the warfare of the service cease waiting upon the service thereof and shall serve no more 26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation to keep the charge and shall do no service Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge CHAP. IX 1 The pass-over is commanded again 6 A second pass-over allowed for them that were unclean or absent 15 The cloud guiâ—eth the removings and encampings of the Israelites ANd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the first moneth of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt saying 2 Let the children of Israel also keep * Exod. 12.1 c. Levit. 23.5 Chap. 28.16 Deut. 16.2 the pass-over at his appointed season 3 In the fourteenth day of this moneth †Heb. between the two evenings at even ye shall keep it in his appointed season according to all the rites of it and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel that they should keep the pass-over 5 And they kept the pass-over on the fourteenth day of the first moneth at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the LORD commanded Moses so did the children of Israel 6 ¶ And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man that they could not keep the pass-over on that day and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day 7 And those men said unto him We are defiled by the dead body of a man wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel 8 And Moses said unto them Stand still and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you 9 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 10 Speak unto the children of Israel saying If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body or be
the LORD hath not sent me 30 But if the LORD †Heb. create a creature make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD 31 ¶ * Ch. 27.3 Deut. 11.6 Ps 106.17 And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground clave asunder that was under them 32 And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods 33 They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said Lest the earth swallow us up also 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense 36 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder for they are hallowed 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar for they offered them before the LORD therefore they are hallowed and they shall be a signe unto the children of Israel 39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers wherewith they that were burnt had offered and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the LORD that he be not as Korah and as his company as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses 41 ¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the LORD 42 And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation and behold the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation 44 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 45 Get you up from among this congregation that I may consume them as in a moment and they fell upon their faces 46 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therein from off the altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the LORD the plague is begun 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation and behold the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people 48 And he stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred beside them that died about the matter of Korah 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the plague was stayed CHAP. XVII 1 Aarons rod among all the rods of the tribes onely flourisheth 10 It is left for a monument against the rebels ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods write thou every mans name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aarons name upon the rod of Levi for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony * Exod. 25.22 where I will meet with you 5 And it shall come to pass that the mans rod whom I shall choose shall blossom and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel whereby they murmure against you 6 ¶ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel and every one of their princes gave him †Heb. a rod for one prince a rod for one prince a rod apiece for each prince one according to their fathers houses even twelve rods and the rod of Aaron was among their rods 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness 8 And it came to pass that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness and behold the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossoms and yeelded almonds 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel and they looked and took every man his rod. 10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Bring * Hebr. 9.4 Aarons rod again before the testimony to be kept for a token against the †Heb. children of rebellion rebels and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me that they die not 11 And Moses did so as the LORD commanded him so did he 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses saying Behold we die we perish we all perish 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die shall we be consumed with dying CHAP. XVIII 1 The charge of the priests and Levites 9 The priests portion 21 The Levites portion 25 The beave-offering to the priests out of the Levites portion ANd the LORD said unto Aaron Thou and thy sons and thy fathers house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi the tribe of thy father bring thou with thee that they may be joyned unto thee and minister unto thee but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness 3 And they shall keep thy charge and the charge of all the tabernacle onely they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar that neither they nor you also die 4 And they shall be joyned unto thee and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation for all the service of the tabernacle and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel 6 And I behold I have * Chap. 3.45 taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel to you they are given as a gift for the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
10.2 Chap. 3.4 1 Chr. 24 2. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD 62 And those that were numbred of them were twenty and three thousand all males from a moneth old and upward for they were not numbred among the children of Israel because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel 63 ¶ These are they that were numbred by Moses and Eleazar the priest who numbred the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbred when they numbred the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai 65 For the LORD had said of them They * Ch. 14.28 1 Co. 10.5 ◠shall surely die in the wilderness And there was not left a man of them save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XXVII 1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance 6 The law of inheritances 12 Moses being told of his death sueth for a successour 18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him THen came the daughters of * Ch. 26.33 Josh 17.3 Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph and these are the names of his daughters Mahlah Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah 2 And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation saying 3 Our father * Ch. 14.35 26.64 65. died in the wilderness and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah but died in his own sin and had no sons 4 Why should the name of our father be †Heb. diminished done away from among his family because he hath no son Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD 6 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers brethren and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying If a man die and have no son then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter 9 And if he have no daughter then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren 10 And if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his fathers brethren 11 And if his father have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family and he shall possess it and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgement as the LORD commanded Moses 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses * Deut. 32.49 Get thee up into this mount Abarim and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel 13 And when thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as * Ch. 20.24 Aaron thy brother was gathered 14 For ye * Ch. 20.24 rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin in the strife of the congregation to sanctifie me at the water before their eyes that is the * Ex. 17.7 water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin 15 ¶ And Moses spake unto the LORD saying 16 Let the LORD the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation 17 Which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd 18 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him 19 And set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight 20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest who shall ask counsel for him * Exod. 28.30 after the judgement of Urim before the LORD at his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in both he and all the children of Israel with him even all the congregation 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest before all the congregation 23 And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses CHAP. XXVIII 1 Offerings are be observed 3 The continual burnt-offering 9 The offering on the sabbath 11 on the new-moons 16 at the pass-over 26 in the day of first-fruits ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel and say unto them My offering and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for †Heb. a savour of my rest a sweet savour unto me shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season 3 And thou shalt say unto them * Exod. 29.38 This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD two lambs of the first year without pot †Heb. in a day day by day for a continual burnt-offering 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer †Heb. between the two evenines at even 5 And a tenth part of an Ephah of flour for a * Lev. 2.1 meat-offering mingled with the fourth part of an * Ex. 29.40 hin of beaten oyl 6 It is a continual burnt-offering which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering 8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even as the meat-offering of the morning and as the drink-offering thereof thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 9 ¶ And on the sabbath-day two lambs of the first year without spot and two tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl and the drink offering thereof 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath beside the continual burnt-offering and his drink offering 11 ¶ And in the beginnings of your moneths ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD two young bullocks and one ram seven lambs of the first year without spot 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl for one
saying 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt * Chap. 14.28 29. from twenty years old and upward shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob because they have not †Heb. fulfilled after me wholly followed me 12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite and Joshua the son of Nun for they have wholly followed the LORD 13 And the LORDS anger was kindled against Israel and the made them wander in the wilderness fourty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed 14 And behold ye are risen up in your fathers stead an increase of sinful men to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel 15 For if ye turn away from after him he will yet again leave them in the wilderness and ye shall destroy all this people 16 ¶ And they came near unto him and said We will build sheep-folds here for our cattel and cities for our little ones 17 But we our selves will go ready armed before the children of Israel until we have brought them unto their place and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land 18 We will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan or forward because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan east-ward 20 ¶ And * Josh 1.13 Moses said unto them If ye will do this thing if ye will go armed before the LORD to war 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD until he hath driven out his enemies from before him 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD then afterward ye shall return and be guiltless before the LORD and before Israel and this land shall be your possession before the LORD 23 But if ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the LORD and be sure your sin will finde you out 24 Build ye cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth 25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses saving Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth 26 Our little ones our wives our flocks and all our cattel shall be there in the cities of Gilead 27 * Josh 4.12 But thy servants will pass over every man armed for war before the LORD to battel as my lord saith 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel 29 And Moses said unto them If the children of God and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan every man armed to battel before the LORD and the land shall be subdued before you then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered saying As the LORD hath said unto thy servants so will we do 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours 33 And * Deut. 2.12 Jof 12.8 22.4 Moses gave unto them even to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben and unto halt the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan the land with the citâ—es thereof in the coasts even the cities of the countrey round about 34 ¶ And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer 35 And Atroth Shophan and Jâ—zer and Jogbehah 36 And Beth nimrah and Beth-haran fenced cities and solds for sheep 37 And the children of Reuben built Hâ—shbon and Elealeh and Kiâ—jathaim 38 And Nebo and Baal-meon their names being changed and Shibmah and †Heb. they called by names the names of the cities gave other names unto the cities which they builded 39 And the children of * Gen. 50.23 Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh and he dwelt therein 41 And * Deut. 3.14 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof and called them Havothâ—â—air 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and the villages thereof and called it Nobah after his own name CHAP. XXXIII 1 Two and fourty journeys of the Israelites 50 The Canaanites aye to be destroyed THese are the journeys of the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD and these are their journeys according to their goings out 3 And they * Exod. 12.37 departed from Rameses in the first moneth on the fifteenth day of the first moneth on the morrow after the pass-over the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians 4 For the Egyptians buried all their first-born which the LORD had smitten among them upon their gods also the LORD executed judgements 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Succoth 6 And they departed from * Exod. 13.20 Succoth and pitched in Etham which is in the edge of the wilderness 7 And they removed from Etham and turned again unto Pi hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon and they pitched before Migdol 8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth and * Exod. 15.22 passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness and went three days journey in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah 9 And they removed from Marah and * Exod. 15.27 came unto Elim and in Elim were twelve fountains of water and threescore and ten palm-trees and they pitched there 10 And they removed from Elim and encamped by the Red sea 11 And they removed from the Red sea and encamped in the * Exod. 16. â— wilderness of Sin 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin and encamped in Dophkah 13 And they departed from Dophkah and encamped in Alush 14 And they removed from Alush and encamped at * Exod. 17. â— Rephidim where was no water for the people to drink 15 And they departed from Rephidim and pitched in the * Ex. 19.1 wilderness of Sinai 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai and pitched * Ch. 11.24 〈◊〉 That is the graves of lusi at ‖ Kibroth-hattaavah 17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah and * Câ— 11.35 encamped
Jahath ‖ Or Zizah vers 1â— Zina and Jeush and Beriah These four were the sons of Shimei 11 And Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second but Jeush and Beriah †Heb did not multiply 〈◊〉 had not many sons therefore they were in one reckoning according to their fathers house 12 ¶ The sons of Kohath Amram Izhar Hebron and Uzziel four 13 The sons of * Ex. 6.20 Amram Aaron and Moses and * Ex. 28.1 Hebr. 5.4 Aaron was separated that he should sanctifie the most holy things he and his sons for ever to burn incense before the LORD to minister unto him and to bless in his name for ever 14 Now concerning Moses the man of God his sons were named of the tribe of Levi. 15 * Ex. 2.22 18.3 4. The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer 16 Of the sons of Gershom Shebuel was the chief 17 And the sons of Eliezer were * Ch. 26.25 Rehabiah ‖ Or the first the chief And Eliezer had none other sons but the sons of Rehabiah †Heb. were highly multiplied were very many 18 Of the sons of Izhar Shelomith the chief 19 Of the sons of Hebron Jeriah the first Amariah the second Jehaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth 20 Of the sons of Uzziel Micah the first and Jesiah the second 21 ¶ The sons of Merari Mahli and Mushi the sons of Mahli Eleazar and Kish 22 And Eleazar died and had no sons but daughters and their ‖ Or kinsmen brethren the sons of Kish took them 23 The sons of Mushi Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth three 24 ¶ These were the sons of * Numb 10.17 21. Levi after the house of their fathers even the chief or the fathers as they were counted by number of names by their polls that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD from the age of * Numb 1.3 twenty years and upward 25 For David said The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people ‖ Or and be dwelleth in Jerusalem c. that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever 26 And also unto the Levites they shall no more carry the tabernacle nor any vessels of it for the service thereof 27 For by the last words of David the Levites were †Heb. numbers numbred from twenty years old and above 28 Because †Heb. thirstation â—as at the hand of the sons of Aaron their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the service of the house of God 29 Both for the shew-bread and for * Lev. 6.20 Chap. 9.29 c. the fine flour for meat-offering and for the unleavened cakes and for that which is baked in the ‖ Or â—â—ot plate pan and for that which is fryed and for all manner of measure and cise 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD and likewise at even 31 And to offer all burnt-sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths in the new moons and on the set feasts by number according to the order commanded unto them continually before the LORD 32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the service of the house of the LORD CHAP. XXIV 1 The divisions of the sons of Aaron by lot into four and twenty orders 20 The Kohathites 27 and the Merarites divided by lot NOw these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron * Lev. 10.1 6. The sons of Aaron Nadaband Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar 2 But * Numb 3.4 26.61 Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests office 3 And David distributed them both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar according to their offices in their service 4 And there were mo chief men found of the sons of Eleazar then of the sons of Ithamar and thus were they divided Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers 5 Thus were they divided by lot one sort with another for the governours of the sanctuary and governours of the house of God were of the sons of Eleazar and of the sons of Ithamar 6 And Shemiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe one of the Levites wrote them before the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites one †Heb. bouse of the father principal houshold being taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar 7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib the second to Jedaiah 8 The third to Harim the fourth to Seorim 9 The fifth to Malchijah the sixth to Mijamin 10 The seventh to Hakkoz the eighth to * Luk. 1.5 Abijah 11 The ninth to Jeshuah the tenth to Shecaniah 12 The eleventh to Eliashib the twelfth to Jakim 13 The thirteenth to Huppah the fourteenth to Jeshebeab 14 The fifteenth to Bilgah the sixteenth to Immer 15 The seventeenth to Hezir the eighteenth to Aphses 16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah the twentieth to Jehezekel 17 The one and twentieth to Jachin the two and twentieth to Gamul 18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah the four and twentieth to Maaziah 19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to their manner under Aaron their father as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him 20 ¶ And the rest of the sons of Levi were these Of the sons of Amram Shubael of the sons of Shubael Jehdeiah 21 Concerning Rehabiah of the sons of Rehabiah the first was Isshiah 22 Of the Izharites Shelomoth of the sons of Shelomoth Jahath 23 And the sons of * Ch. 22.19 26 3â— Hebron Jeriah the first Amariah the second Jahaziel the third Jekameam the fourth 24 Of the sons of Uzziel Michah of the sons of Michah Shamir 25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah of the sons of Isshiah Zechariah 26 The sons of Merari were Mahli Mushi the sons of Jaaziah Beno 27 ¶ The sons of Merari by Jaaziah Beno and Shoham and Zaccur and Ibri 28 Or Mahli came Eleazar who had no sons 29 Concerning Kish the son of Kish was Jerahmeel 30 The sons also of Mushi Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers 31 There likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chief of the fathers of the priests and
so great 11 And God said to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies neither yet hast asked long life but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thy self that thou mayest judge my people over whom I have made thee king 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee and I will give thee riches and wealth and honour such as * 1 Chr. 29.25 Ch. 9.22 Eccles 2.9 none of the kings have had that have been before thâ—e neither shall there any after thee have the like 13 ¶ Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem from before the tabernacle of the congregation and reigned over Israel 14 * 1 Kin. â— 16 10 â—6 c. And Solomon gathered chariots and hors-men and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand hors-men which he placed in the chariot-cities and with the king at Jerusalem 15 * 1 King 12.27 Chap. 9.27 And the king †Heb. 〈◊〉 made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones and cedar-trees made he as the sycomore-trees that are in the vale for abundance 16 * 1 King 10.28 Chap. 9.28 And †Heb. the â—oing forth of the horses which was Solomons Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen yarn the kings merchants received the linen yarn at a price 17 And they fetcht up and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an hundred and fifty and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria †Heb. by their hand by their means CHAP. II. 1 17 Solomons labourers for the building of the temple 3 His embassage to Huram for workmen and provision of stuff 11 Huram sendeth him a kinde answer ANd Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD and an house for his kingdom 2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them 3 ¶ And Solomon sent to ‖ Or Hiram 1 Kin. 5.1 Huram the king of Tyre saying As thou didst deal with David my father and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein even so deal with me 4 Behold I build an house to the name of the LORD my God to dedicate it to him and to burn before him †Heb. incâ—use of spices sweet incense and for the continual shew-bread and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening on the sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God This is an ordinance for ever to Israel 5 And the house which I build is great for great is our God above all gods 6 * 1 King 8.27 Chap. 6.18 But who †Heb. hath retained or obtained strength is able to build him an house seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him who am I then that I should build him an house save onely to burn sacrifice before him 7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in iron and in purple and crimson and blue and that can skill †Heb. to grave gravings to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom David my father did provide 8 Send me also cedar-trees fir-trees and ‖ Or almuggim 1 Kings 10.11 algum-trees out of Lebanon for I know that thy servants can skill to out timber in Lebanon and behold my servants shall be with thy servants 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance for the house which I am about to build shall be †Heb. great and wonderful wonderful great 10 And behold I will give to thy servants the hewers that cut timber twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths oâ—oyl 11 ¶ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing which he sent to Solomon Because the LORD hath loved his people he hath made thee king over them 12 Huram said moreover Blessed be the LORD-God of Israel that made heaven and earth who hath given to David the king a wise son †Heb knowing prudence and understanding eâ—dued with prudence and understanding that might build an house for the LORD and an house for his kingdom 13 And now I have sent a cunning man endued with understanding of Huram my fathers 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan and his father was a man of Tyre skilful to work in gold and in silver in brass in iron in stone and in timber in purple in blue and in fine linen and in crimson also to grave any manner of graving and to finde out every device which shall be put to him with thy cunning men and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father 15 Now therefore the wheat and the barley the oyl and the wine which my lord hath spoken of let him send unto his servants 16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon †Heb. according to all thy need as much as thou shalt need and we will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to †Heb. Japho Joppa and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem 17 ¶ * As vers 2. And Solomon numbred all †Heb. the men the strangers the strangers that were in the land of Israel after the numbring wherewith David his father had numbred them and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred 18 And he set * As it is verser threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain and three thousand and six hundred over-seers to set the people a work CHAP. III. 1 The place and time of building the temple 3 The measure and ornaments of the house 11 The cherubims 14 The vail and pillars THen * 1 King 6.1 c. Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Morsah ‖ Or which was seen of David his father where the LORD appeared unto David his father in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of * 1 Chr. 21.18 ‖ Or Aâ—â—â—nah 2 Sam. 24.18 Ornan the Jebusite 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second moneth in the fourth year of his reign 3 ¶ Now these are the things * 1 King 6.2 wherein Solomon was †Heb. founded instructed for the building of the house of God The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits and the breadth twenty cubits 4 And the * 1 King 6.3 porch
and it shall come to pass that ‖ Or inâ—â—â—d of that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them Ye are the sons of the living God 11 * Jer. 3.18 Ezek. 34. â—3 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for great shall be the day of Jezreel CHAP. II. 1 The idolatry of the people 6 Gods judgements against them 14 His promises of reconciâ—ation with them SAy ye unto your brethren ‖ That is My people Ammi and to your sisters ‖ That is Having obtained mercâ— Ruhamah 2 Plead with your mother plead for * Isa 50.1 she is not my wise neither am I her husband let her therefore put away her * Ezek. 16.25 whoredoms out of her sight and her aduâ—teries from between her breasts 3 Lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was * Ezek. 16.4 born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children for they be the children of whoredoms 5 For their mother hath played the harlot she that conceived them hath done shamefully for she said I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wooll and my flax mine oyl and my †Heb. drinks drink 6 ¶ Therefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns and †Heb. wall a wall make a wall that she shall not finde her paths 7 And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not finde them then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me then now 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn and †Heb. new wine wine and oyl and multiplied her silver and gold ‖ Or wherewith they maâ—e Baal which they prepared for Baal 9 Therefore will I return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will ‖ Or take away recover my wooll and my flax given to cover her nakedness 10 And now will I discover her †Heb. fâ—lâ—y or viâ—lany Jewdness in the sight of her lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast-days her new-moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn feasts 12 And I will †Heb. make desolate destroy her vines and her fig-trees whereof she hath said These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest and the beasts of the field shall eat them 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her ear-rings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgat me saith the LORD 14 ¶ Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak ‖ Or frienâ—ly †Heb. to her hearâ— comfortably unto her 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence and the valley of Achor for a door of hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt 16 And it shall be at that day saith the LORD that thou shalt call me ‖ That is My husband Ishi and shalt call me no more ‖ That is My loâ—â— Baali 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their name 18 And in that day will I make a * Job 5.23 covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bowe and the sword and the battel out of the earth and will make them to lie down safely 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgement and in loving kindness and in mercies 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know the LORD 21 And it shall come to pass in that day I will hear saith the LORD I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth 22 And the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyl and they shall hear Jezreel 23 And I will sowe her unto me in the earth and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I * Rom. 9.26 1 Pet. 2.10 will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God CHAP. III. 1 By the explation of an adulteress 4 iâ— shewed the desclation of Israel before their restauration THen said the LORD unto me Go yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel who look to other gods and love flagons †Heb. of crapes of wine 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for an homer of barley and an †Heb. letheâ—k half-homer of barley 3 And I said unto her Thou shalt * Deut. 27 13. abide for me many days thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will I also be for thee 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and â—â—thout †Heb. a standing or â—tatue an image and without an ephod and without teraphim 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the LORD their God and * Jer. 30.9 Ezek. 34.22 David their king and shall fear the LORD and 〈◊〉 goodness in the * Isa â— 2 latter days CHAP. IV. 1 Gods judgements against the sins of the people 6 and of the priests 12 and against their idolatry 15 Judah is exhorted to take warning by Israels calamity HEar the word of the LORD ye children of Israel for the LORD hath a * Mic. 6. â— controversie with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land 2 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and †Heb. bloudâ— bloud toucheth bloud 3 Therefore shall the land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away 4 Yet let no man strive nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the
of Israel which is in heaven he gave them over into the power of Nebuchodonosor king of Babylon of the Caldees 16 Who pulled down the house and burnt it and carried away the people captives unto Babylon 17 But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the countrey of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem and had set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple at Babylon and they were delivered to ‖ Or Zorobabel which is also Sanabassar the ruler so as Zorobabel seemeth to be added to the text Ezra 1.8 Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler 19 With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels and put them in the temple at Jerusalem and that the temple of the Lord should be built in his place 20 Then the same Sanabassarus being come hither laid the foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem and from that time to this being still a building it is not yet fully ended 21 Now therefore if it seem good unto the king let search be made among the ‖ Or rolls records of king Cyrus 22 And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus and if our lord the king be so minded let him signifie unto us thereof 23 Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon and so at Echatana the palace which is in the countrey of Media there was found a ‖ Or place roll wherein these things were recorded 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again where they do sacrifice with continual fire 25 Whos 's height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits with three rowes of hewn stones and one row of new wood of that countrey and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus 26 And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord both of gold and silver that Nebuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon should be restored to the house at Jerusalem and be set in the place where they were before 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governour of Syria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes and their companions and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice should be careful not to meddle with the place but suffer Zorobabel the servant of the Lord and governour of Judea and the elders of the Jews to build the house of the Lord in that place 28 I have commanded also to have it built up whole again and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews till the house of the Lord be finished 29 And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord that is to Zorobabel the governour for bullocks and rams and lambs 30 And also corn salt wine and oyl and that continually every year without further question according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signifie to be daily spent 31 That ‖ Or drink-offerings offerings may be made to the most high God for the king and for his children and that they may pray for their lives 32 And he commanded that whosoever should transgress yea or make light of any thing afore spoken or written out of his own house should a tree be taken and he thereon be hanged and all his goods seised for the king 33 The Lord therefore whose name is there called upon utterly destroy every king and nation that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according unto these things it be done with diligence CHAP. VII 1 Sisinnes and others help forward the building 5 The temple is finished and dedicated 10 The pass-over is kept THen * Ezra 6.13 Sisinnes the governour of Celosyria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes with their companions following the commandments of king Darius 2 Did very carefully oversee the holy works assisting the ancients of the Jews and governours of the temple 3 And so the holy works prospered when Aggeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord God of Israel and with ‖ Or the decrâ—â— the consent of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes kings of Persia 5 And thus was the holy house finished in †Heb. the third day Ezra 6.15 the three and twentieth day of the moneth Adar in the sixth year of Darius king of the Persians 6 And the children of Israel the priests and the Levites and other that were of the captivity that were added unto them did according to the things written in the book of Moses 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs 8 And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel according to the number of the ‖ Or tribes chief of the tribes of Israel 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arayed in their vestments according to their †Heb. divisions Ezra 6.18 kindreds in the services of the Lord God of Israel according to the book of Moses and the porters at every gate 10 And the children of Israel ‖ Or with those that c. that were of the captivity held the pass-over the fourteenth day of the first moneth after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified 11 They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together but the Levites were all sanctified together 12 And so they offered the pass-over for all them of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land and sought the Lord. 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days making merry before the Lord 15 For that he had turned the ‖ Or minde counsel of the king of Assyria towards them to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord God of Israel CHAP. VIII 1 Esdras bringeth the kings commistion to build 8 The copy of it 28 He declareth the names and number of those that came with him 61 and his journey 71 He lamenteth the sins of his people 96 and sweareth the priests to put away their strange wives ANd after these things when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias the son of ‖ Aâ—ariat Ezerias the son of Helchiah the son of Salum 2 The son of
the Lord is judge and with him is * Deut. 10.17 2 Chr. 19.7 Job 34.19 Wisd 6â— Acts 10 34. Rom. 2.11 Gal. 2.5 Ephes 6.9 Coloss 3.25 1 Pet. 1.17 no respect of persons 13 He will not accept any person against a poor man but will hear the prayer of the oppressed 14 He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless nor the widow when she poureth out her complaint 15 Do not the tears run down the widows cheeks and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall 16 He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds 17 The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds and till it come nigh he will not be comforted and will not depart till the most High shall behold to judge righteously and execute judgement 18 For the Lord will not be slack neither will the Mighty be patient towards them till he have smitten in sunder the loyns of the unmerciful and repayed vengeance to the heathen till he have taken away the multitude of the ‖ Or crued oppressours proud and broken the sceptre of the unrighteous 19 Till he have rendred to every man according to his deeds and to the works of men according to their devices till he have judged the cause of his people and made them to rejoyce in his mercy 20 Mercy is †Gr. fâ—r seasonable in the time of affliction as clouds of rain in the time of drought CHAP. XXXVI 1 A prayer for the church against the enemies thereof 18 A good heart and a froward 21 Of a good wife HAve mercy upon us O Lord God of all and behold us 2 And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee 3 * Jer. 10.25 Lift up thy hand ‖ Or upon against the strange nations and let them see thy power 4 As thou wast sanctified in us before them so be thou magnified among them before us 5 And let them know thee as we have known thee that there is no God but onely thou O God 6 Shew new signs and make other strange wonders glorify thy hand and thy right arm that they may set forth thy wondrous works 7 Raise up indignation and pour out wrath take away the adversary and destroy the enemy 8 Make the time short remember the †Gr. oath covenant and let them declare thy wonderful works 9 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire and let them perish that oppress the people 10 Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen that say There is none other but we 11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob together and inherit thou them as from the beginning 12 O Lord have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name and upon Israel * Exod. 4.22 whom thou hast named thy first-born 13 O be merciful unto Jerusalem thy holy city the place of thy rest 14 Fill Sion ‖ Or. that it may magnify thine oracles with thine unspeakable oracles and thy people with thy glory 15 Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning and raise up ‖ Or. prophesies prophets that have been in thy name 16 Reward them that wait for thee and let thy prophets be found faithful 17 O Lord hear the prayer of thy ‖ Or supplients servants according to the * Num. 6.23 blessing of Aaron over thy people that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord the eternal God 18 The belly devoureth all meats yet is one meat better then another 19 * Job 34.3 As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison so doth an heart of understanding false speeches 20 A froward heart causeth heaviness but a man of experience will recompense him 21 A woman will receive every man yet is one daughter better then another 22 The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance and a man loveth nothing better 23 If there be kindness meekness and comfort in her tongue then is not her husband like ‖ Or common other men 24 He that getteth a wife beginneth ‖ Or to thrive a possession a help like unto himself and a pillar of rest 25 Where no hedge is there the possession is spoiled and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning 26 Who will trust a thief well-appointed that skippeth from city to city so who will beleeve a man that hath no house and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him CHAP. XXXVII 1 How to know friends and counsellours 12 The discretion and wisdom of a godly man blesseth him 27 Learn to refrain thine appetite EVery friend saith I am his friend also but there is a friend which is onely a friend in name 2 Is it not a grief unto death when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy 3 O wicked imagination whence camest thou in to cover the earth with deceit 4 There is a companion which rejoyceth in the prosperity of a friend but in the time of trouble will be against him 5 There is a companion which helpeth his friend for the belly and taketh up the buckler ‖ Or in presence of the enemy against the enemy 6 Forget not thy friend in thy minde and be not unmindful of him in thy riches 7 Every councellour extolleth counsel but there is some that councelleth for himself 8 Beware of a counsellour and know before ‖ Or what use there is of him what need he hath for he will counsel for himself lest he cast the lot upon thee 9 And say unto thee Thy way is good and afterward he stand on the other side to see what shall be fall thee 10 Consult not with one that suspecteth thee and hide thy counsel from such as envy thee 11 Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous neither with a coward in matters of war nor with a merchant concerning exchange nor with a buyer of selling nor with an envious man of thankfulness nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness nor with the slothful for any work nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work nor with an idle servant of much business hearken not unto these in any mattter of counsel 12 But be continually with a godly man whom thou knowest to keep the commandments of the Lord whose minde is according to thy minde and will sorrow with thee if thou shalt miscarry 13 And let the counsel of thine own heart stand for there is no man more faithful unto thee then it 14 For a mans minde is sometime wont to tell him more then seven watchmen that sit above in an high tower 15 And above all this pray to the most High that he will direct thy way in truth 16 Let reason go before every enterprise and counsel before every action 17 The countenance is a signe of changing of the heart 18
and ministred unto him many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem 42 ¶ * Mat. 27 5â— And now when the even was come because it was the preparation that is the day before the sabbath 43 Joseph of Arimathea an honourable counsellour which also waited for the kingdom of God came and went in boldly unto Pilate and craved the body of Jesus 44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead and calling unto him the centurion he asked him whether he had been any while dead 45 And when he knew it of the centurion he gave the body to Joseph 46 And he bought fine linen and took him down and wrapped him in the linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid CHAP. XVI 1 An angel declareth the resurrection of Christ to three women 9 Christ himself appeareth to Mary Magdalene 12 to two going into the countrey 14 then to the apostles 15 whom he sendeth forth to preach the gospel 19 and ascendeth into heaven ANd when the sabbath was past Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him 2 * Luk. 24.1 Joh. 20.1 And very early in the morning the first day of the week they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun 3 And they said among themselves Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre 4 And when they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away for it was very great 5 * Joh 20.11 And entring into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a long white garment they were affrighted 6 And he saith unto them Be not affrighted ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified he is risen he is not here behold the place where they laid him 7 But go your way tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee there shall ye see him * Mat 26.32 as he said unto you 8 And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed neither said they any thing to any man for they were afraid 9 ¶ Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week * Joh. 20.14 he appeared first to Mary Magdalene * Luk. 8.2 out of whom he had cast seven devils 10 And she went and told them that had been with him as they mourned and wept 11 And they when they had heard that he was alive and had been seen of her beleeved not 12 ¶ After that he appeared in another form * Luk. 24.13 unto two of them as they walked and went into the countrey 13 And they went and told it unto the residue neither beleeved they them 14 ¶ * Luk. 24.36 Joh. 20.19 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat ‖ Or together at meat and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they beleeved not them which had seen him after he was risen 15 * Mat. 28.19 And he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature 16 He that beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved * Joh. 12.48 but he that beleeveth not shall be damned 17 And these signs shall follow them that beleeve * Act. 16.18 In my name shall they cast out devils * Act. 2.4 they shall speak with new tongues 18 * Act. 28 5. They shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them * Act. 18.8 they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover 19 ¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them he was * Luk. 24. â—1 received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God 20 And they went forth and preached every where the Lord working with them * Heb. â— 4 and confirming the word with signs following Amen ¶ The Gospel according to S. LUKE CHAP. I. 1 The preface of Luke to his whole gospel 5 The conception of John the Baptist 2â— and of Christ 39 The prophesie of Elisabeth and of Mary concerning Christ 57 The nativity and circumcision of John 67 The prophesie of Zachary both of Christ 76 and of John FOrasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely beleeved among us 2 Even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word 3 It seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write unto thee in order most excellent Theophilus 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed 5 ¶ THere was in the days of Herod the king of Judea a certain priest named Zacharias of the course of Abia and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elisabeth 6 And they were both righteous before God walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless 7 And they had no childe because that Elisabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years 8 And it came to pass that while he executed the priests office before God in the order of his course 9 According to the custom of the priests office his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 * Ex. 30.7 Lev. 1â— 17 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense 11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense 12 And when Zacharias saw him he was troubled and fear fell upon him 13 But the angel said unto him Fear not Zacharias for thy prayer is heard and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John 14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness and many shall rejoyce at his birth 15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink and he shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb 16 * Mal. 4.6 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God 17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient ‖ Or by to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepated for the Lord. 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel Whereby shall I know this for I am an old man and my wife well stricken in years 19 And the angel answering said unto him I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and
father that he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man 12 My father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to him as 〈◊〉 deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing 13 And his mother said unto him Upon me be thy curse my son onely obey my voice and go fetch me them 14 And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and his mother made savoury meat such as his father loved 15 And Rebekah took †Heb. desirable goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which were with her in the house and put them upon Jacob her younger son 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 ¶ And he came unto his father and said My father And he said Here am I who art thou my son 19 And Jacob said unto his father I am Esau thy first-born I have done according as thou badest me arise I pray thee sit and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me 20 And Isaac said unto his son How is it that thou hast found it so quickly my son And he said Because the LORD thy God brought it †Heb. before â—â—e to me 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob come near I pray thee that I may feel thee my son whether thou be my very son Esau or not 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father and he felt him and said The voice is Jacobs voice but the hands are the hands of Esau 23 And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother Esaus hands So â—e blessed him 24 And he said Art thou my very son Esau And he said I am 25 And he said Bring it near to me and I will eat of my sons venison that my soul may bless thee And he brought it near to him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank 26 And his father Isaac said unto him Come near now and kiss me my son 27 And he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said See the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed 28 Therefore * Heb. 11.20 God give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine 29 Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be lord over thy brethren and let thy mothers sons bow down to thee Curseth be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee 30 ¶ And it came to pass assoon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from his hunting 31 And he also had made savour meat and brought it unto his father and said unto his father Let my father arise and eat of his sons venison that thy soul may bless me 32 And Isaac his father said unto him Who art thou And he said I am thy son thy first-born Esau 33 And Isaac †Heb. trembled with a great trembling greatly trembled very exceedingly and said Who where is he that hath †Heb. â—â—â—ted taken venison and brought it me and I have eaten of all before thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall be blessed 34 And when Esau heard the words of his father he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father Bless me even me also O my father 35 And he said Thy brother came with subtilty and hath taken away thy blessing 36 And he said Is not he rightly named ‖ That is a supplanter Jacob for he hath supplanted me these two times he took away my birth-right and behold now he hath taken away my blessing And he said Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me 37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau Behold I have made him thy lord and all his brethren have I given to him for servants and with corn and wine have I ‖ Or supported sustained him and what shall I do now unto thee my son 38 And Esau said unto his father Hast thou but one blessing my father bless me even me also O my father And Esau lift up his voice * Heb. 12.17 and wept 39 And Isaac his father answered said unto him Behold * Vers 28. thy dwelling shall be ‖ Or of the fatness the fatness of the earth of the dew of heaven from above 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck 41 ¶ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart The days of mourning for my father are at hand * Oâ—ed 10. then will I slay my brother Jacob. 42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah And she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said unto him Behold thy brother Esau as touching thee doth comfort himself purposing to kill thee 43 Now therefore my son obey my voice and arise flee thou to Lahan my brother to Haran 44 And tarry with him a few days until thy brothers fury turn away 45 Until thy brothers anger turn away from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and fetch thee from thence Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac * Chap. 26.35 I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth such as these which are of the daughters of the land what good shall my life do me CHAP. XXVIII 1 Isaac blesseth Jacob and sendeth him to Padan-aram 9 Esau marrieth Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael 12 The vision of Jacobs ladder 18 The stone of Beth-el 20 Jacobs vow ANd Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan 2 * Hos 12.12 Arise go to Padan-aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother 3 And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be †Heb. an assembly of people a multitude of people 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land †Heb. of thy
therefore and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt 11 ¶ And Moses sad unto God Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt 12 And he said Certainly I will be with thee and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt ye shall serve God upon this mountain 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 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 uâ— unto you 15 And God said moreover unto Moses Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel The LORD God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me unto you this is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them The LORD God of your fathers the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob appeared unto me saying I have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt 17 And I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzâ—tes and the Hivites and the Jebusites unto a land slowing with milk and honey 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice and thou shalt come thou and the elders of Israel unto the king of Egypt and you shall say unto him The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us and now let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacritice to the LORD our God 19 ¶ And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go ‖ Or but 〈◊〉 strong hand no not by a mighty hand 20 And I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midâ—â— thereof after that he will let you go 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 22 * Ch. 11.2 12.35 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour and of her that sojourneth in her house jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters and ye shall spoil ‖ Or Egypt the Egyptians CHAP. IV. 1 Moses rod is turned into a serpent 6 His band is leprous 10 He is lotb to be sent 14 Aaron is appointed to assist him 18 Moses departeth from Jethro 21 Gods message to Pharaob 24 Zipporah circumciseth her son 27 Aaron is sent to next Moses 31 The people beleeveth them ANd Moses answered and said But behold they will not beleeve me nor hearken unto my voice for they will say The LORD hath not appeared unto thee 2 And the LORD said unto him What is that in thine hand And he said A rod. 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 And the LORD said unto Moses Put forth thy hand and take it by the tail And he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod in his hand 5 That they may beleeve that the LORD God of their fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath appeared unto thee 6 ¶ And the LORD said furthermore unto him Put now thine hand into thy bosome and he put his hand into his bosome and when he took it out behold his hand was leprous as snow 7 And he said Put thine hand into thy bosome again and he put his hand into his bosome again and plucked it out of his bosome and behold it was turned again as his other flesh 8 And it shall come to pass if they will not beleeve thee neither hearken to the voice of the first signe that they will beleeve the voice of the latter signe 9 And it shall come to pass if they will not beleeve also these two signs neither hearken unto thy voice that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry-land and the water which thou takest out of the river †Heb. shall be and shall be shall become bloud upon the dry-land 10 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD O my Lord I am not †Heb. a man of words eloquent neither †Heb. since yestâ—rday nor since the third day her tofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue 11 And the LORD said unto him Who hath made mans mouth or who maketh the dumb or deas or the seeing or the blinde have not I the LORD 12 Now therefore go and I will be * Mat. 10 1â— Mat. 1.11 Luk. 12.11 with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say 13 And he said O my Lord send I pray thee by the hand of him whâ—m thou ‖ Or shouldest wilt send 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother I know that he can speak well And also behold he cometh forth to meet thee and when he sâ—â—th 15 And thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what ye shall do 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people and he shall be even he shall be to thee in stead of a mouth and * Ch. 7.1 thou shalt be to him in stead of God 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand wherewith thou shalt do signs 18 ¶ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law and said unto him Let me go I pray thee and return unto my brethren which art in Egypt and see whâ—ther they be yet alive And Jethro said to Moses Go in peace 19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian Go return into Egypt for all the men are dead which fought thy life 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an aâ—s and he returned to the land of Egypt And Moses took the rod of God in his hand 21 And the LORD said unto Moses When thou goâ—st to return into Egypt see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand but I will harden his heart that he shall not let the people go
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh Thus saith the LORD Israel is my son even my first-born 23 And I say unto thee Let my son go that he may serve me and it thou refuse to let him go behold I will slay thy son even thy first born 24 ¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn that the LORD met him and sought to kill him 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp ‖ Or knife stone and cut off the sore-skin of her son and †Heb. made it touth cast it at his feet and said Sarely a bloudy husband art thou to me 26 So he let him go then she said A bloudy husband thou art because of the circumcision 27 ¶ And the LORD said to Aaron Go into the wilderness to meet Moses And he went and met him in the mount of God and kisâ—â—â— him 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him and all the signs which he had commanded him 29 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people 31 And the people beseeved and when they heard that the LORD had vinted the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction then they bowed their heads and worshipped CHAP. V. 1 Pharaoh ebideth Moses and Aaron for their message 5 He increaseth the Israelites task 15 He checketh their complaints 19 They cry out upon Moses and Aaron 22 Moses complaineth to God ANd afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Let my people go that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness 2 And Pharaoh said Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the LORD neither will I let Israel go 3 And they said * Ch. 3. â—8 The God of the Hebrews hath met with us let us go we pray thee three days journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the LORD our God lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them Wherefore do ye Moses and Aaron let the people from their works get you unto your burdens 5 And Pharaoh said Behold the people of the land now are many and you make them rest from their burdens 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the task-masters of the people and their officers saying 7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as heretofore let them go and gather straw for themselves 8 And the tale of the bricks which they did make heretofore you shall lay upon them you shall not diminish ought thereof for they be idle therefore they cry saying Let us go and sacrifice to our God 9 †Heb. let the work â—e heavy upon the men Let there more work be laid upon the men that they may labour therein and let them not regard vain words 10 ¶ And the task-masters of the people went out and their officers and they spake to the people saying Thus saith Pharaoh I will not give you straw 11 Go ye get you straw where you can find it yet not ought of your work shall be diminished 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw 13 And the task-masters hasted them saying Fulfil your works your †Heb. a matter of a day in biâ— day daily tasks as when there was straw 14 And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaohs task-masters had set over them were beaten and demanded Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day as heretofore 15 ¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh saying Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants 16 There is no straw given unto thy servant and they say to us Make brick and behold thy servants are beaten but the fault is in thine own people 17 But he said Ye are idle ye are idle therefore ye say Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD 18 Go therefore now and work for there shall no straw be given you yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case after it was said Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task 20 ¶ And they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh 21 And they said unto them The LORD look upon you and judge because you have made our savour †Heb. to stink to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants to put a sword in their hands to slay us 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD and said Lord wherefore â—aâ—t thou so evil intreated this people why is it that thou hast sent me 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name he hath done evil to this people †Heb. delivering thou so it delivered neither hast thou delivered thy people at all CHAP. VI. 1 God reneweth his promise by his name JEHOVAH 14 The geneadogy of Reuben 15 of Simeon 16 of Levi of whom came Moses and Aaron THen the LORD said unto Moses Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh for with a strong hand shall he let them go and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land 2 And God spake unto Moses and said unto him I am the LORD 3 And I appeared unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty but by my name JEHOVAH was I not knowâ— to them 4 And I have also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and I have remembred my covenant 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel I am the LORD and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will rid you out or their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgements 7 And I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a God and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians 8 And I will bring you in unto the land concerning the which I did †Heb. list up my hand swear to give it to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob and I will give it you for an heritage I am the LORD 9 ¶ And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel but they hearkned not unto Moses for †Heb. shâ—rtness or
neither did he hearken unto them as the LORD had said 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house neither did he set his heart to this also 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 25 And seven dayes were fulfilled after that the LORD had smitten the river CHAP. VIII 1 Frogs are sent 8 Pharaoh sueth to Moses 12 and Moses by prayer removeth them away 16 The dust is turned into lice which the magicians could not do 20 The swarms of flies 25 Pharaoh inclineth to let the people go 32 but yet is hardened ANd the LORD spake unto Moses Go unto Pharaoh and say unto him Thus saith the LORD Let my people go that they may serve me 2 And if thou refuse to let them go behold I will smite all thy borders with frogs 3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly which shall go up and come into thine 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 ‖ Or dough kneading-troughâ— 4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses Say unto Aaron Stretch forth thine haâ—d with thy rod over the streams over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt 6 And Aaâ—on stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt 7 * Wiâ—â— 17.7 And the Magicians did so with their inchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt 8 ¶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said Intreat the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD 9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh ‖ Or have this bonour over me c. Glory over me ‖ Or arainst when when shall I intreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people †Heb. to cut off to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river onely 10 And he said ‖ Or against to morrow 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 11 And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remain in the river onely 12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh 13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses and the frogs died out of the houses out of the villages and out of the fields 14 And they gathered them together upon heaps and the land stank 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite he hardned his heart and hearkned not unto them as the LORD had said 16 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Say unto Aaron Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt 17 And they did so for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beaâ—t all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt 18 And the magicians did so with their inchantmentâ— to bring forth lice but they could not so there were lice upon man and upon beast 19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh This is the finger of God and Pharaohâ— heart was hardned and he hearkned not unto them as the LORD had said 20 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh â—o he cometh forth to the water and say unto him Thus saith the LORD Let my people go that they may serve me 21 Else if thou wilt not let my people go behold I will send ‖ Or a mixture of noysome câ—asts c. 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 â—ull of swarms of flies and also the ground whereon they are 22 And I will sever in that day the laâ—d of Goshen in which my people dwell that no swarms of flies shall be there to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midâ—t of the earth 23 And I will put †Heb. a redemption a division between my people and thy people ‖ Or by to morrow to morrow shall this signe be 24 And the LORD did soâ—and * Wisd 16. â— there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants houses and into all the land of Egypt the land was ‖ Or destroyed corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies 25 ¶ And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said Go ye sacriâ—ice to your God in the land 26 And Moses said It is not meet so to do for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God Lo shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us 27 We will go three dayes journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as * Ch. 3. â—8 he shall command us 28 And Pharaoh said I will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness onely you shall not go very far away intreat for me 29 And Moses said Behold I go out from thee and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh from hiâ— servants and from his people to morrow but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD 30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh and intreated the LORD 31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh from his servants and from his people there remained not one 32 And Pharaoh hardned his heart at this time also neither would he let the people go CHAP. IX 1 The murrain of beasts 8 The plague of boyls and blains 12 The message about the hail 22 The plague of hail 27 Pharaoh sueth to Moses 35 but yet is hardned THen the LORD said unto Moses Go in unto Pharaoh and tell him Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may serve me 2 For if thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still 3 Behold the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattel which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheep there shall be
a very grievous murrain 4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattel of Israel and the cattel of Egypt and there shall nothing die of all that is the childrens of Israel 5 And the LORD appointed a set time saying To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land 6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow and all the cattel of Egypt died but of the cattel of the children of Israel died not one 7 And Pharaoh sent and behold there was not one of the cattel of the Israelites dead And the heart of Pharaoh was hardned and he did not let the people go 8 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace and let Moses sprinkle it towards the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt and shall he a boyl breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of Egypt 10 And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven and it became a boyl breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boyl for the boyl was upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians 12 And the LORD hardned the heart of Pharaoh and he hearkned not unto them * Chap. 4.21 as the LORD had spoken unto Moses 13 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and lay unto him Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may serve me 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and upon thy people that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth 15 For now I will stretch out my hand that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence and thou shalt be cut off from the earth 16 And in very deed for * Rom. 9. â—7 this cause have I †Heb. made thee stand raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth 17 As yet exalted thou thyself against my people that thou wilt not let them go 18 Behold to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now 19 Send therefore now and gather thy cattel and all that thou hast in the field for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field and shall not be brought home the hail shall come down upon them and they shall die 20 He that feared the word of the LORD amongst the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattel flee into the houses 21 And he that †Heb. set not his â—eart unto regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattel in the field 22 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt upon man and upon beast upon every herb of the field throughout the land of Egypt 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven and the LORD sent thunder and hail and the fire ran along upon the ground and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt 24 So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail very grievous such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field both man and beast and the hail smote every herb of the field and brake every tree of the field 26 Onely in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were was there no hail 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 28 Intreat the LORD for it is enough that there be no more †Heb. voices of God mighty thundrings and hail and I will let you go and ye shall stay no longer 29 And Moses said unto him Assoon as I am gone out of the city I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD and the thunder shall cease neither shall there be any more hail that thou mayest know how that the * Psal 24.1 earth is the LORDS 30 But as for thee and thy servants I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten for the barley was in the ear and the â—â—ax was bolled 32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten for they were †Heb. bidden or dark not grown up 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD and the thunders and hail ceased and the rain was not poured upon the earth 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased he sinned yet more and hardned his heart he and his servants 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardned neither would he let the children of Israel go as the LORD had spoken †Heb. by the hand of Moses by Moses CHAP. X. 1 God threatneth to send locusts 7 Pharaoh moved by his servants inclineth to let the Israelites go 12 The plague of the locusts 16 Pharaoh sueth to Moses 21 The plague of darkness 24 Pharaoh sueth unto Moses 27 but yet is hardned ANd the LORD said unto Moses Go in unto Pharaoh * Chap 4.21 for I have hardned his heart and the heart of his servants that I might shew these my signs before him 2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son and of thy sons son what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs which I have done amongst them that ye may know how that I am the LORD 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him Thus saith the LORD God oâ— the Hebrews How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy self before me Let my people go that they may serve me 4 Else if thou refuse to let my people go behold to morrow will I bring the * Wisd 16.9 locusts into thy coast 5 And they shall cover the †Heb. eye face of the earth that one cannot be able to see the earth and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped which remaineth unto you from the hail and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field 6 And they shall fill thy houses and the houses of all thy servants the houses of all the Egyptians which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers fathers have seen since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day And he
turned himself and went out from Pharaoh 7 And Pharaohs 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 8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh and he said unto them Go serve the LORD your God but †Heb. who and who c. who are they that shall go 9 And Moses said We will go with our young and with our old with our sons and with our daughters with our flocks and with our herds will we go for we must hold a feast unto the LORD 10 And he said unto them Let the LORD be so with you as I will let you go and your little ones look to it for evil is before you 11 Not so go now ye that are men and serve the LORD for that you did desire And they were driven out from Pharaohs presence 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land even all that the hail hath left 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt and the LORD brought an east-wind upon the land all that day and all that night and when it was morning the east-wind brought the locusts 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt very grievous were they before them there were no such locusts as they neither after them shall be such 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkned and they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left and there remained not any green thing in the trees or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt 16 ¶ Then Pharaoh †Heb. hastned to call called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he he said I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you 17 Now therefore forgive I pray thee my sin onely this once and intreat the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death onely 18 And he went out from Pharaoh and intreated the LORD 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west-wind which took away the locusts and †Heb. fastned cast them into the Red sea there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt 20 But the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go 21 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Stretch out thine hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt †Heb. that one may feel darkness even darkness which may be felt 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days 23 They saw not one another neither rose any from his place for three days * Wisd 18.1 but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings 24 ¶ And Pharaoh called unto Moses and said Go ye serve the LORD onely let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go with you 25 And Moses said Thou must give †Heb. into our hands us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God 26 Our cattel also shall go with us there shall not an hoof be left behinde 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 27 ¶ But the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart and he would not let them go 28 And Pharaoh said unto him Get thee from me take heed to thy self see my face no more for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die 29 And Moses said Thou hast spoken well I will see thy face again no more CHAP. XI 1 Gods message to the Israelites to borrow jewels of their neighbours 4 Moses threatneth Pharaoh with the death of the first-born ANd the LORD said unto Moses Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaph and upon Egypt afterwards he will let you go hence when he shall let you go he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether 2 Speak now in the ears of the people and let every man borrow of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbour * Chap. â— 22 and 12 35. jewels of silver and jewels of gold 3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians Moreover the man * Eccluâ— 45.1 Moses was very great in the land of Egypt in the sight of Pharaohs servants and in the sight of the people 4 And Moses said Thus saith the LORD * Chap. 12.29 About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt 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 behinde the mill and all the first-born of beasts 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it nor shall be like it any more 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me and bow down themselves unto me saying Get thee out and all the people †Heb. that is at thy feet that follow thee and after that I will go out and he went out from Pharaoh in †Heb. heat of anger a great anger 9 And the LORD said unto Moses Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh and the LORD hardned Pharaohs heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land CHAP. XII 1 The beginning of the year is changed 3 The pass-over is instituted 11 The rice of the pass-over 15Vnleavened bread 29 The first-born are slain 31 The Israelites are driven out of the land 37 They come to Succoth 43 The ordinance of the pass-over ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying 2 This moneth shall be unto you the beginning of moneths it shall be the first moneth of the year to you 3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying In the tenth day of this moneth they shall take to them every man a ‖ Or kid lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for an house 4 And if the hoâ—â—hold be too little for the lamb let him his neighbour next unto his
house take it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shal make your count for the lamb 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish a male †Heb. son of a year of the first year ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same moneth and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it †Heb. between the two evenings in the evening 7 And they shall take of the bloud and strike it on the two side-posts and on the upper door-post of the houses wherein they shall eat it 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night rost with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it 9 Eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water but rost with fire his head with his legs and with the purtenance thereof 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire 11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it with your loyns girded your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand and ye shall eat it in haste it is the LORDS pass-over 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt both man and beast and against all the ‖ Or princes gods of Egypt I will execute judgement I am the LORD 13 And the bloud shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are and when I see the bloud I will pass over you and the plague shall not he upon you †Heb. for a destruction to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day that soul shall be cut off from Israel 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you no manner of work shall be done in them save that which every †Heb. soul man must eat that onely may be done of you 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread for in this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever 18 ¶ * Levit. 23.5 Numb 28.16 In the first moneth on the fourteenth day of the moneth at even ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the moneth at even 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven sound in your houses for whosoever eateth that which is leavened even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel whether he be a stranger or born in the land 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread 21 ¶ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them Draw out and take you a ‖ Or kid lamb according to your families and kill the pass-over 22 * Heb. 11.28 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the bloud that is in the bason and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the bloud that is in the bason and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians and when he seeth the bloud 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 sin to you 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever 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 26 * Josh 4.6 And it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you What mean you by this service 27 That ye shall say It is the sacrifice of the LORDS pass-over who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses And the people boâ—ed the head and worshipped 28 And the children of Israel went away and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron so did they 29 ¶ * Chap. 11.4 And it come to pass that at midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt * Wisd 18.11 from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the †Heb. house of the pit dungeon and all the first-born of cattel 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 31 ¶ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said Rise up and get you forth from amongst my people both you and the children of Israel and go serve the LORD as ye have said 32 Also take your flocks and your herds as ye have said and be gone and bless me also 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste for they said We be all dead men 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened their ‖ Or dough kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses and they borrowed of the Egyptians * Chap. 3.22 and 11.2 jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment 36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians so that they lent unto them such things as they required and they spoiled the Egyptians 37 ¶ And * Numb 33.3 the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth about six hundred thousand on foot that were men besides children 38 And †Heb. a great mixture a mixed multitude went up also with them and flocks and herds even very much cattel 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 40 ¶ Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was * Gen. 17.13 Act. 7.6 Gal. 3.17 four hundred and thirty years 41 And it
came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years even the self-same day it came to pass that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt 42 It is †Heb. a night of observations a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations 43 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron This is the ordinance of the pass-over there shall no stranger eat thereof 44 But every mans servant that is bought for money when thou hast circumcised him then shall he eat thereof 45 A foreiner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof 46 In one house shall it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house * Num. 9.12 John 19.36 neither shall ye break a bone thereof 47 All the congregation of Israel shall †Heb. do it keep it 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep the pass-over to the LORD let all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it and he shall be as one that is born in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof 49 One law shall be to him that is home-born and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you 50 Thus did all the children of Israel as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron so did they 51 â—nd it came to pass the self-same day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies CHAP. XIII 1 The first-born are sanctified to God 3 The memorial of the pass-over is commanded 11 The firstlings of beasts are set apart 17 The Israelites go out of Egypt and carry Josephs bones with them 20 They come to Etham 21 God guideth them by a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 * Chap. 22 29. and 34.19 Lev. 27.26 Num. 3.13 and 8.16 Luk. 2.23 Sanctifie unto me all the first-born whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel both of man of beast it is mine 3 ¶ And Moses said unto the people Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt out of the house of †Heb. servants bondage for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place there shall no leavened bread be eaten 4 This day came ye out in the moneth Abib 5 ¶ And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey that thou shalt keep this service in this moneth 6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters 8 ¶ And thou shalt shew thy son in the day saying This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt 9 And it shall be for a signe unto thee upon thine hand and for a memorial between thine eyes that the LORDS law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year 11 ¶ And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers and shall give it thee 12 * Chap. 22.29 and 34.19 Ezek. 44.30 That thou shalt †Heb. cause to pass over set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast the males shall be the LORDS 12 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a ‖ Or kid lamb and if thou wilt not redeem it then thou shalt break his neck and all the first-born of man amongst thy children shalt thou redeem 14 ¶ And it shall be when thy son asketh thee †Heb. to morrow 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 15 And it came to pass when Pharaoh would hardly let us go that the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt both the first-born of man and the first-born of beasts therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix being males but all the first-born of my children I redeem 16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand and for frontlets between thine eyes for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt 17 ¶ And it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines although that was near for God said Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they return to Egypt 18 But God led the people about through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea and the children of Israel went up ‖ Or by five in a rank harnessed out of the land of Egypt 19 And Moses took the hones of Joseph with him for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel saying * Gen. 50.25 Josh 24.32 God will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you 20 ¶ And * Numb 32.6 they took their journey from Saccoth and encamped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness 21 And * Numb 1â— 14 Deut. 1. â—2 Neh. â— 19 Psal â—8 14 1 Cor. 10 1. the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way and by nigth in a pillar of sire to give them light to go by day and night 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of sire by night from before the people .. CHAP. XIV 1 God instructeth the Israelites in their journey 5 Pharaoh pursueth after them 10 The Israelites murmure 13 Moses comforteth them 15 God instructeth Moses 19 The cloud removeth behinde the camp 21 The Israelites pass through the Red sea 23 which drowneth the Egyptians ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel that they turn and encamp before * Numb â— 7 Pi-hahiroth between Migdol and the sea over against Baal-zephon before it shall ye encamp by the sea 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel They are intangred in the land the wilderness hath shut them in 4 And I will harden Pharaohs heart that he shall follow after them and I
searful in praises doing wonders 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand the earth swallowed them 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation 14 * Deut. 2.25 Josh 2.9 The people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away 16 * Deut. 2.15 Josh 2.9 Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy people pass over O LORD till the people pass over which thou hast purchased 17 Thou shalt bring them in c plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place O LORD which thou hast made for thee to dwell in in the Sanctuary O LORD which thy hands have established 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his hors-men into the sea and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them but the children of Israel went on dry-land in the midst of the sea 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 21 And Miriam answered them Sing ye to the LORD for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur and they went three days in the wilderness and sound no water 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 †That is bitterness Marah 24 And the people murmured against Moses saying What shall we drink 25 And he cried unto the Lord and the LORD shewed him a * Ecclus 38.5 tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them 26 And said If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give car to his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians for I am the the LORD that healeth thee 27 ¶ * Numb 33.9 And they came to Elim where were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm-trees and they encamped there by the waters CHAP. XVI 1 The Israelites come to Sin 2 They murmure for want of bread 4 God promiseth them bread from heaven 11 Quails are sent 14 and manna 16 The ordering of manna 25 It was not to be found on the sabbath 32 An owner of it is preserved 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 moneth after their departing out of the land of Egypt 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness 3 And the children of Israel said unto them Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt when we sat by the flesh-pots and when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger 4 ¶ Then said the LORD unto Moses Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather †Heb. the portion of a say in his day a certain rate every day that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. 5 And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in it shall be twice as much as they gather daily 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 7 And in the morning then ye shall see the glory of the LORD for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD And what are we that ye murmure against 〈◊〉 8 And Moses said This shall be when the LORD shall give you in the evening â—iâ—sh to eat and in the morning bread to the fâ—ll for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmure against him And what are 〈◊〉 morning are nor against us but against the LORD 9 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel Come near before the LORD for he hath heard your murmurings 10 And it came to pass as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel that they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the LORD * Chap. 13.21 appeared in the cloud 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel speak unto them saying At even ye shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be silled with bread and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God 13 And it came to pass that at even * Numb 11.31 the quails came up and covered the camp and in the morning the dew lay round about the host 14 And when * Numb 11.7 Psa 78.24 Wis 16.20 the dew that lay was gone up behold upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hear frost on the ground 15 And when the children of Israel saw it they said one to another ‖ Or What is this or It is a portion It is manna for they wist not what it was And Moses said unto them * Joh. 6.31 2 Cor. 10.3 This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat 16 ¶ This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded Gather of it every man according to his eating an omer †Heb. by the poll or bead for every man according to the number of your †Heb. soult persons take ye every man for them which are in his tents 17 And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more some less 18 And when they did mete it with an omer * 2 Cor. 8.25 he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack they gathered every man according to his eating 19 And Moses said Let no man leave of it till the morning 20 Notwithstanding they hearkned not unto Moses but some of them left of it until the morning and it bred worms and stank And Moses was wroth with
them 21 And they gathered it every morning every man according to his eating and when the sun waxed hot it melted 22 ¶ And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread two omers for one man and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses 23 And he said unto them This is that which the LORD hath said To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD bake that which ye will bake to day and seethe that ye will seethe and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning 24 And they laid it up tâ—ll the morning as Moses bade and it did not stink neither was there any worm therein 25 And Moses said Eat that to day for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD to day ye shall not finde it in the field 26 Six days ye shall gather it but on the seventh day which is the sabbath in it there shall be none 27 ¶ And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather and they found none 28 And the LORD said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws 29 See for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days abide ye every man in his place let no man go out of his place on the seventh day 30 So the people rested on the seventh day 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna and it was like coriander-seed white and the taste of it was like wasers made with honey 32 ¶ And Moses said This is the thing which the LORD commandeth Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt 33 And Moses said unto Aaron Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein and lay it up before the LORD to be kept for your generations 34 As the LORD commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna fourty years * Jos 5.12 Neh. 9.15 until they came to a land inhabited they did eat manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah CHAP. XVII 1 The people murmure for water at Rephidim 5 God sendeth them for water to the rock in Horeb. 8 Awalek is overcome by the holding up of Moses hands 15 Moses buildeth the altar JEHOVAH-nissi ANd all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin after their journeys according to the commandment of the LORD and pitched in Rephidim and there was no water for the people to drink 2 * Numb 20.4 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said Give us water that we may drink And Moses said unto them Why chide you with me wherefore do ye tempt the LORD 3 And the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against Moses and said Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children our cattel with thirst 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD saying What shall I do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me 5 And the LORD said unto Moses Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel and thy rod wherewith * Chap. 7.20 thou smotest the river take in thine hand and go 6 * Numb 20.9 Psa 78.15 105.41 Wis 11.4 1 Cor. 10.4 Behold I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel 7 And he called the name of the place ‖ That is tentation Massah and ‖ That is â—biding or strife Meribah because of the chiding of the children of Israel and because they tempted the LORD saying Is the LORD among us or not 8 ¶ * Deut. 25.17 Wis 11.3 Then came Amalek and sought with Israel in Rephidim 9 And Moses said unto * Called Jesus Acts 7.45 Joshua Choose us out men and go out fight with Amalek to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek and Moses Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill 11 And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed 12 But Moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword 14 And the LORD said unto Moses Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua for * Numb 24 20. 1 Sam. 15.3 I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it ‖ That is the LORD my banner JEHOVAH-niâ—li 16 For he said ‖ Or Because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the LORD therefore c. Because †Heb. the hand upon the throne of the LORD the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation CHAP. XVIII 1 Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and two sons 7 Moses entertaineth him 13 Jethro's counsel is accepted 27 Jethro departeth WHen * Chap. 2.16 Jethro the priest of Midian Moses father in law heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt 2 Then Jethro Moses father in law took Zipporah Moses wife after he had sent her back 3 And her two sons of which the * Chap. 2.22 name of the one was ‖ That is a stranger there Gerihom for he said I have been an alien in a strange land 4 And the name of the other was ‖ That is my God is an help Eliezer for the God of my father said be was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh 5 And Jethro Moses father in law came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he encamped at the mount of God 6 And he said unto Moses I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee and thy wife and her two sons with her 7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father in
4.11 mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mount quaked greatly 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder Moses spake and God answered him by a voice 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai on the top of the mount and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount and Moses went up 21 And the LORD said unto Moses Go down †Heb. contest charge the people lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze many of them perish 22 And let the priests also which come near to the LORD sanctifie themselves lest the LORD break forth upon them 23 And Moses said unto the LORD The people cannot come up to mount Sinai for thou charged it us saying Set bounds about the mount and sanctifie it 24 And the LORD said unto him Away get thee down and thou shalt come up thou and Aaron with thee but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD lest he break forth unto them 25 So Moses went down unto the people and spake unto them CHAP. XX. 1 The ten commandments 18 The people are afraid 20 Moses comforteth them 22 Idâ—latry is forbidden 24 Of what sort the altar should be ANd God spake all these words saying 2 * Deu. 516. Psa 81.10 I am the LORD thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of †Heb. servants bondage 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me 4 * Levit. 26.1 Psal 97.7 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth 5 Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them not serve them for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments 7 * Levit. 19.12 Deut. 5.11 Mat. 5.33 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain 8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy 9 * Chap. 23.12 Ezek. 20.12 Luk. 13.14 Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou not thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant not thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates 11 For * Gen. 2.2 in six days the LORD made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it 12 ¶ * Deut. 5.16 Mat. 15.4 Eph. 6.2 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee 13 * Mat. 5.21 Thou shalt not kill 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour 17 * Rom. 7.7 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbours 18 ¶ And * Heb. 12.18 all the people saw the thundrings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and when the people saw it they removed and stood afar off 19 And they said unto Moses * Deu. 5.24 18.16 Speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die 20 And Moses said unto the people Fear not for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not 21 And the people stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was 22 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold 24 ¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings and thy peace-offerings thy sheep and thine oxen In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee 25 And * Deu. 27.5 Josh 8.31 if thou wilt make me an altar of stone thou shalt not †Heb. built them with bewing build it of hewen stone for if thou lift up thy tool upon it thou hast polluted it 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon CHAP. XXI 1 Laws for men-servants 5 For the servant whose ear is bored 7 For women-serâ—ants 12 For man-slaughter 16 For stealers of men 17 For cursers of parents 18 For smiters 22 For a hurt by chance 28 For an ox that goreth 33 For him that is an occasion of harm NOw these are the judgements which thou shalt set before them 2 * Levit. 25.39 Deut. 15.12 Jer. 34.14 If thou buy an Hebrew servant six years he shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing 3 If he came in †Heb. with his body by himself he shall go out by himself if he were married then his wife shall go out with him 4 If his master have given him a wife and she have born him sons or daughters the wife and her children shall be her masters and he shall go out by himself 5 And if the servant †Heb. saying shall say shall plainly say I love my master my wife and my children I will not go out free 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door-post and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul and he shall serve him for ever 7 ¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant she shall not go out as the men-servants do 8 If she †Heb. be evil in the eyes of c. please not her master who hath betrothed her to himself then shall he let her be redeemed To sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters 10 If he take him another wife her food her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish 11 And if he do not these three unto her then shall she go out free without money 12 ¶ *
unto thee 28 And * Jos 24.12 I will send hornets before thee which shall drive out the Hivite the Canaanite and the Hittite from before thee 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field multiply against thee 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be increased and inherit the land 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand and thou shalt drive them out before thee 32 * Ch. 34.15 Deut. 7.2 Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods 33 They shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me for if thou serve their gods * Deut. 7.16 Jos 23.13 Judg. 2.3 it will surely be a mare unto thee CHAP. XXIV 1 Moses is called up into the mountain 3 The people promise obedience 4 Moses buildeth an altar and twelve pillars 6 He sprinkleth the bloud of the Covenant 9 The glory of God appeareth 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people 15 Moses goeth into the mountain where he continueth fourty days and fourty nights ANd he said unto Moses Come up unto the LORD thou and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel and worship ye afar off 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD but they shall not come nigh neither shall the people go up with him 3 ¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgements and all the people answered with one voice and said * Ch. 19.8 Vers 7. Deu. 5.27 All the words which the LORD hath said will we do 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar under the hill and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel it offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD 6 And Moses took half of the bloud and put it in basons and half of the bloud he sprinkled on the altar 7 And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said * Vers 3. All that the LORD hath said will we do and be obedient 8 And Moses took the bloud and sprinkled it on the people and said Behold * 1 Pet. 1.2 Hebr. 9.20 the bloud of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words 9 ¶ Then went up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel 10 And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand also they saw God and did eat and drink 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Come up to me into the mount and be there and I will give thee tables of stone and a law commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them 13 And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua and Moses went up into the mount of God 14 And he said unto the elders Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you and behold Aaron and Hur are with you if any man have any matters to do let him come unto them 15 And Moses went up into the mount a cloud covered the mount 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and gat him up into the mount and * Ch. 34 2â— Deut. 9.9 Moses was in the mount fourty days and fourty nights CHAP. XXV 1 What the Israelites must offer for the making of the tabernacle 10 The form of the ark 17 The mercy-seat with the cherubims 23 The table with the furniture thereof 31 The candlestick with the instruments thereof ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel that they †Heb. take for ox bring me an ‖ Or heave-offering offering * Ch. 35. â— of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them gold and silver and brass 4 And blue and purple and scarlet and ‖ Or silk fine linen goats hair 5 And rams skins died red and badgers skins and shittim-wood 6 Oyl for the light spices for anointing oyl and for sweet incense 7 Onyx-stones and stones to be set in the * Ch. 28.4 ephod and in the * Ch. 28.15 breast-plate 8 And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell amongst them 9 According to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle the pattern of all the instrument thereof even so shall ye make it 10 ¶ * Ch. 37.1 And they shall make an ark of shittim-wood two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold within and without shalt thou overlay it shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners thereof and two rings shall be in the one side of it and two rings in the other side of it 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim-wood and overlay them with gold 14 And thou shalt put the staâ—es into the rings by the sides of the ark that the ark may be born with them 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark they shall not be taken from it 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee 17 And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof a cubit and a half the breadth thereof 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy seat 19 And make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end even ‖ Or of the matter of the mercy-seat of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high covering the mercy-seat
shall be †Heb. twinâ—ed coupled together beneath and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring thus shall it be for them both they shall be for the two corners 25 And they shall be eight boards and their sockets of silver sixteen sockets two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board 26 ¶ And thou shalt make bars of shittim-wood five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the two sides west-ward 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold for places for the bars thou shalt overlay the bars with gold 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle * Ch. 25.9 40. Act. 7.44 Heb. 8.5 according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount 31 ¶ And thou shalt make a vail of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen of cunning work with cherubims shall it be made 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold their hooks shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver 33 ¶ And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy 34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place 35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south and thou shalt put the table on the north-side 36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent of blue and purple scarlet fine twined linen wrought with needle-work 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood and overlay them with gold and their hooks shall be of gold and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them CHAP. XXVII 1 The altar of burnt-offering with the vessels thereof 9 The court of the tabernacle inclosed with hangings and pillars 18 The measure of the court 20 The oyl for the lamp ANd thou shalt make an altar of shittim-wood five cubits long and five cubits broad the altar shall be four-square and the height thereof shall be three cubits 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof his horns shall be of the same and thou shalt overlay it with brass 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes and his shovels and his basons and his flesh-hooks and his fire pans all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass 4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work of brass and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof 5 And thou shalt put in under the compass of the altar beneath that the net may be even to the midst of the altar 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar staves of shittim-wood and overlay them with brass 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar to bear it 8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it as †Heb. be shewed it was shewed thee in the mount so shall they make it 9 ¶ And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle for the south-side south-ward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver 11 And likewise for the north-side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver 12 ¶ And for the breadth of the court on the west-side shall be hangings of fifty cubits their pillars ten and their sockets ten 13 And the breadth of the court on the east-side east-ward shall be fifty cubits 14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three 15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three 16 ¶ And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen wrought with needle-work and their pillars shall be four and their sockets four 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of brass 18 ¶ The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits and the breadth †Heb. fifty by fifty fifty every where and the height five cubits of fine twined linen and their sockets of brass 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof and all the pins thereof and all the pins of the court shall be of brass 20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure oyl-olive beaten for the light to cause the lamp †Heb. to ascend up to burn always 21 In the tabernacle of the congregatâ—on without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD It shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel CHAP. XXVIII 1 Aaron and his sons are set apart for the priests office 2 Holy garments are appointed 6 The ephod 15 The breast-plate with twelve precious stones 30 The Vrim and Thummim 31. The robe of the ephod with pomegranates and bells 36 The plate of the mitre 39 The embroidered coat 40 The garments for Aarons sons ANd take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother his sons with him from among the children of Israel that he may minister unto me in the priests office even Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar Aarons sons 2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty 3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom that they may make Aarons garments to consecrate him that he may minister unto me in the Priests office 4 And these are the garments which they shall make a breast-plate and an ephod and a robe and a broidered coat a mitre and a girdle and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and his sons that he may minister unto me in the priests office 5 And they shall take gold blue purple scarlet and fine linen 6 ¶ And they
shall make the ephod of gold of blue and of purple of scarlet and fine twined linen with cunning work 7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces thereof joyned at the two edges thereof and so it shall be joyned together 8 And the ‖ Or embroidered curious girdle of the ephod which is upon it shall be of the same according to the work thereof even of gold of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen 9 And thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel 10 Six of their names on one stone and the other six names of the rest on the other stone according to their birth 11 * Wis 18.34 With the work of an engraver in stone like the engravings of a signet shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel thou shalt make them to be set in ouch as of gold 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial 13 ¶ And thou shalt make ouches of gold 14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends of wreathen work shalt thou make them and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches 15 ¶ And thou shalt make the breast-plate of judgement with cunning work after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it of gold of blue and of purple and of scarlet and of fine twined linen shalt thou make it 16 Four-square it shall be being doubled a span shall be the length thereof and a span shall be the breadth thereof 17 And thou shalt †Heb. fill in it fillings of stone set in it settings of stones even four â—oâ—â— of stones the first row shall be a ‖ Or. ruby sardius a topaz and a carbuâ—â—â— this shall be the first row 18 And the second row shall be an emeraud a sapphire and a diamond 19 And the third row a figure and agate and an amethyst 20 And the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper they shall be set in gold in their †Heb. fillings enclosings 21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel twelve according to their names like the engravings of a signet every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes 22 ¶ And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold 23 And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate two rings of gold and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-plate 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breast-plate 25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches and put them on the shoulder-pieces or the ephod before it 26 ¶ And thou shalt make two rings of gold and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breast-plate in the border thereof which is in the side of the ephod inward 27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath towards the fore-part thereof over against the other coupling thereof above the curious girdle of the ephod 28 And they shall binde the breast-plate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod and that the breast-plate be not loosed from the ephod 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breast-plate of judgement upon his heart when he goeth in unto the holy place for a memorial before the LORD continually 30 ¶ And thou shalt put in the breast-plate of judgement the Urim and the Thummim and they shall be upon Aarons heart when he goeth in before the LORD and Aaron shall bear the judgement of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually 31 ¶ And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue 32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it in the midst thereof it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it as it were the hole of an habergâ—on that it be not rent 33 ¶ And beneath upon the ‖ Or skirts hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet round about the hem thereof and bells of gold between them round about 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the hem of the robe round about 35 * Ecclus 45.9 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD and when he cometh out that he die not 36 ¶ And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold and grave upon it like the engravings of a signet HOLINESS TO THE LORD 37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace that it may be upon the mitre upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be 38 And it shall be upon Aarons forehead that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts and it shall be always upon his forehead that they may be accepted before LORD 39 ¶ And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen and thou shalt make the girdle of needle-work 40 ¶ And for Aarons sons thou shalt make coats and thou shalt make for them girdles and bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty 41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and his sons with him and shalt anoint them and †Heb. fill their band consecrate them and sanctifie them that they may minister unto me in the priests office 42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover †Heb. flâ—sh of their nakedness their nakedness from the loyns even unto the things they shall †Heb. be reach 43 And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place that they bear not iniquity and die It shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him CHAP. XXIX 1 The sacrifies and ceremonies of consecrating the priests 38 The continual burnt-offering 45 Gods promise to dwell among the children of Israel ANd this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them to minister unto me in the priests office * Lev. 9.2 Take one young bullock and two rams without blemish 2 And unleavened bread and cakes unleavened tempered with oyl and waters unleavened anointed with oyl of wheaten flour shalt thou
make them 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shalt wash them with water 5 And thou shalt take the garments and put upon Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breast-plate and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod 6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head and put the holy crown upon the mitre 7 Then shalt thou take the anointing * Ch. 30.25 oyl and pour it upon his head and anoint him 8 And thou shalt bring his sons and put coats upon them 9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles Aaron and his sons and †Heb. binde put the bonnets on them and the priests office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute and thou shalt †Heb. fill the band of * Ch. 28 4â— consecrate Aaron and his sons 10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation and * Lev. â— â—â— Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 12 And thou shalt take of the bloud of the bullock and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger and pour all the bloud beside the bottom of the altar 13 And * Lev. 3. â— thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards and ‖ It seemeth by anatomy and the Hebrew doctours to be the midriff the caul that is above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and burn them upon the altar 14 But the flesh of the bullock and his skin and his dung shalt thou burn with fire without the camp it is a sin-offering 15 ¶ Thou shalt also take one ram and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram 16 And thou shalt slay the ram and thou shalt take his bloud and sprinkle it round about upon the altar 17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces and wash the inwards of him and his legs and put them unto his pieces and ‖ Or upon unto his head 18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar it is a burnt offering unto the LORD it is a sweet savour an offering made by fire unto the LORD 19 ¶ And thou shalt take the other ram and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram and take of his bloud and put it upon the up of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons and upon the thumb of their right hand and upon the great toe of their right foot and sprinkle the bloud upon the altar round about 21 And thou shalt take of the bloud that is upon the altar and of the anointing oyl and sprinkle it upon Aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon the garments of his sons with him and he shall be hallowed and his garments and his sons and his sons garments with him 22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and the right shoulder for it is a ram of consecration 23 And one loaf of bread and one cake of oyled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons shalt †Heb. shake to and fro wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD 25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands and burn them upon the altar for a burnt-offering for a sweet savour before the LORD it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD 26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aarons consecrations and wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD and it shall be thy part 27 And thou shalt sanctifie the breast of the wave-offering and the shoulder of the heave-offering which is waved and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration even of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons 28 And it shall be Aarons and his sons by a statute for ever from the children of Israel for it is an heave-offering and it shall be an heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace-offerings even their heave-offering unto the LORD 29 ¶ And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons after him to be anointed therein and to be consecrated in them 30 And †Heb. he of his sons that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place 31 ¶ And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration and seethe his flesh in the holy place 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the * Lev. â— 31 Mat. 12.4 bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made to consecrate and to sanctifie them but a stranger shall not eat thereof because they are holy 34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations or of the bread remain unto the morning then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire it shall not be eaten because it is holy 35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron and to his sons according to all things which I have commanded thee seven days shalt thou consecrate them 36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin-offering for atonement and thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast made an atonement for it and thou shalt anoint it to sanctifie it 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar and sanctifie it and it shall be an altar most holy whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy 38 ¶ Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar * Num. 2â— 3 two lambs of the first year day by day continually 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even 40 And with the one lamb a tenth-deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oyl and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink-offering 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even and shalt do thereto according to the meat-offering of the morning and according to the drink-offering thereof for a sweet savour an offering made by fire unto the
LORD 42 This shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD where I will meet you to speak there unto thee 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel and ‖ Or Israel the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory 44 And I will sanctifie the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar I will sanctifie also both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priests office 45 ¶ * Levit. 26.12 2 Cor. 6.16 And I will dwell amongst the children of Israel and will be their God 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I may dwell amongst them I am the LORD their God CHAP. XXX 1 The altar of incense 11 The ransom of souls 17 The brasen laver 22 The holy anointing oyl 34 The composition of the perfume ANd thou shalt make an altar to burn Incense upon of shittim-wood shalt thou make it 2 A cubit shall be the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof four-square shall it be and two cubits shall be the height thereof the horns thereof shall be of the same 3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the †Heb. roof top thereof and the †Heb. walls sides thereof round about and the horns thereof and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about 4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it by the two †Heb. ribs corners thereof upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withall 5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood and overlay them with gold 6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony where I will meet with thee 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon †Heb. incense of spices sweet incense every morning when he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense upon it 8 And when Aaron ‖ Or setteth up †Heb. causeth to ascend lighteth the lamps †Heb. between the two evens at even he shall burn incense upon it a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations 9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt-sacrifice nor meat offering neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin-offering of atonements once in the year shall he maâ—â— atonement upon it throughout your generations it is most holy unto the LORD 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 * Num. 1.1.2 5. When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after †Heb. them that are to be numbred their number then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD when thou numbrest them that there be no plague amongst them when thou numbrest them 13 This they shall give every one that passeth among them that are numbred half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary * Lev. 27.25 Numb 3.47 Ezek. 45.12 A shekel is twenty gerahs an hall-shekel shall be the offering of the LORD 14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbred from twenty years old and above shall give an offering unto the LORD 15 The rich shall not †Heb. multiply give more and the poor shall not †Heb. diminish give less then hall a shekel when they give an offering unto the LORD to make an atonement for your souls 16 And thou shalt take the atonement-money of the children of Israel and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD to make an atonement for your souls 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass and his foot also of brass to wash withal and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar and thou shalt put water therein 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands their feet thereat 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation they shall wash with water that they die not or when they come near to the altar to minister to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not and it shall be a statute for eâ—er to them even to him and to his seed throughout their generations 22 ¶ Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses saying 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices of pure myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much even two hundred and fifty shekels and of sweet calamus two hundred fifty shekels 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary and of oyl-olive an * Chap. â— 29.40 hin 25 And thou shalt make it an oyl of holy ointment an ointment compound after the art of the ‖ Or perfumer apothecary it shall be an holy anointing oyl 26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith and the ark of the testimony 27 And the table and all his vessels and the candlestick and his vessels and the altar of incense 28 And the altar of burnt-offering with all his vessels and the laver and his foot 29 And thou shalt sanctifie them that they may be most holy whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy 30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister unto me in the priests office 31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying This shall be an holy anointing oyl unto me throughout your generations 32 Upon mans flesh shall it not be poured neither shall ye make any other like it after the composition of it it is holy and it shall be holy unto you 33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his people 34 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Take unto thee sweet spices stacte and onycha and galbanum these sweet spices with pure frankincense of each shall there be a like weight 35 And thou shalt make it a perfume a confection after the art of the apothecary †Heb. sâ—ited tempered together pure and holy 36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation where I will meet with thee it shall be unto you most holy 37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make you shall not make to your selves according to the composition thereof it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD 38 Whosoever shall make like unto
And it came to pass assoon as he came nigh unto the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing and Moses anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount 20 * Deut. 9.21 And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strawed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it 21 And Moses said unto Aaron What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them 22 And Aaron said Let not the anger of my lord wax hot thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief 23 For they said unto me Make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 24 And I said unto them Whosoever hath any gold let them break it off So they gave it me then I cast it into the fire and there came out this calf 25 ¶ And when Moses saw that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame amongst †Heb. those that rose up against them their enemies 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said Who is on the LORDS side let him come unto me And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him 27 And he said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Put every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men 29 ‖ Or And Moses said Consecrate your selves to day to the LORD because every man hath been against his son and against his brother c. For Moses had said †Heb. Fill your hands Consecrate your selves to day to the LORD even every man upon his son and upon his brother that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day 30 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the people Ye have sinned a great sin and now I will go up unto the LORD peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD and said Oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold 32 Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written 33 And the LORD said unto Moses Whosoever hath sinned against me him will I blot out of my book 34 Therefore now go lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee Behold mine Angel shall go before thee Nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them 35 And the LORD plagued the people because they made the calf which Aaron made CHAP. XXXIII 1 The Lord refuseth to go as he had promised with the people 4 The people mourn thereat 7 The tabernacle is removed out of the camp 9 The Lord talketh familiarly with Moses 12 Moses desireth to see the glory of God ANd the LORD said unto Moses Depart and go up hence thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt unto the land which I sware unto Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob saying * Gen. 12.7 Unto thy seed will I give it 2 * Deut. 7.22 Josh 24.11 And I will send an Angel before thee and I will drive out the Canaanite the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite the Hivite and the Jebusite 3 Unto a land flowing with milk honey for I will not go up in the midst of thee for thou art a * Chap. 32.9 Deut. 9.13 stiff-necked people lest I consume thee in the way 4 ¶ And when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned and no man did put on him his ornaments 5 For the LORD had said unto Moses Say unto the children of Israel Ye are a stiff-necked people I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee 6 And the children of Israel stript themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. 7 And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp afar off from the camp and called it the tabernacle of the congregation And it came to pass that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation which was without the camp 8 And it came to pass when Moses went out unto the tabernacle that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent-door and looked after Moses until he was gone into the tabernacle 9 And it came to pass as Moses entred into the tabernacle the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the LORD talked with Moses 10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle-door all the people rose up worshipped every man in his tent-door 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend And he tuâ—ned again into the camp but his servant Joshua the son of Nun a young man departed not out of the tabernacle 12 ¶ And Moses said unto the LORD See thou sayest unto me Bring up this people and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me Yet thou hast said I know thee by name and thou hast also found grace in my sight 13 Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight shew me now thy way that I may know thee that I may finde grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people 14 And he said My presence shall go with thee I will give thee rest 15 And he said unto him If thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight Is it not in that thou goest with us So shall we be separated I and thy people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth 17 And the LORD said unto Moses I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight I know thee by name 18 And he said I beseech thee shew me thy glory 19 And he said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee * Rom. 9.15 and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy 20 And he said Thou canst not see my face
hanging of the door to the tabernacle 6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation 7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar and shalt put water therein 8 And thou shalt set up the court round about and hang up the hanging at the court-gate 9 And thou shalt take the anointing oyl and anoint the tabernacle and all that is therein and shalt hallow it and all the vessels thereof and it shall be holy 10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt-offering and all his vessels and sanctifie the altar and it shall be an altar †Heb. holiness of holinesses most holy 11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot and sanctifie it 12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and wash them with water 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments and anoint him sanctifie him that he may minister unto me in the priests office 14 And thou shalt bring his sons and clothe them with coats 15 And thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father that they may minister unto me in the priests office for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priest-hood throughout their generations 16 Thus did Moses according to all that the LORD commanded him so did he 17 ¶ And it came to pass in the first moneth in the second year on the first day of the moneth that the * Num. 7. â—â— tabernacle was reared up 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastned his sockets and set up the boards thereof and put in the bars thereof and reared up his pillars 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it as the LORD commanded Moses 20 ¶ And he took and put the testimony into the ark and set the staves on the ark and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and * Ch. 35. â—â— set up the vail of the covering and covered the ark of the testimony as the LORD commanded Moses 22 ¶ And he put the table in the tent of the congregation upon the side of the tabernacle north-ward without the vail 23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD as the LORD had commanded Moses 24 ¶ And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation over against the table on the side of the tabernacle south-ward 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD as the LORD commanded Moses 26 ¶ And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail 27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon as the LORD commanded Moses 28 ¶ And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle 29 And he put the altar of burnt-offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meat-offering as the * Ch. 30. â—â— LORD commanded Moses 30 ¶ And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar and put water there to wash withal 31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat 32 When they went into the tent of the congregation when they came near unto the altar they washed as the LORD commanded Moses 33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court-gate so Moses finished the work 34 ¶ * Numb 9.15 1 King 8.10 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle 35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the children of Israel †Heb. journeyed went onward in all their journeys 37 But if the cloud were not taken up then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up 38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys The third book of Moses called LEVITICUS CHAP. I. 1 The burnt-offerings 3 of the herd 10 of the fâ—ocks 14 of the fowls ANd the LORD called unto Moses and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD ye shall bring your offering of the cattel even of the herd and of the flock 3 If his offering be a brunt-sacrifice of the herd let him offer a male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD 4 * Eâ—od 19.10 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him 5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD and the priests Aarons sons shall bring the bloâ—d and sprinkle the bloud round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 6 And he shall flay the burnt-offering and cut it into his pieces 7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon the fire 8 And the priests Aarons sons shall lay the parts the head the fat in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar 9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water and the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt-sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet favour unto the LORD 10 ¶ And if his offering be of the flocks namely of the sheep or of the goats for a burnt-sacrifice he shall bring it a male without blemish 11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar north-ward before the LORD and the priests Aarons sons shall sprinkle his bloud round â—â—out upon the altar 12 And he shall cut it into his pieces with his head and his fat and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar 13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water and the priests shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar it is a burnt-sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 14 ¶ And if the burnt-sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves or of young pigeons 15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar and ‖ Or pinch of the
bead with the nail wring off his head and burn it on the altar and the bloud thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar 16 And he shall pluck away his crop with ‖ Or the filth thereof his feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east-part by the place of the ashes 17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof but shall not divide it asunder and the priest shall burn it upon the altar upon the wood that is upon the fire it is a burnt-sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD CHAP. II. 1 The meat-offering of flour with oyl and incense 4 either baken in the oven 5 or on a plate 7 or in a frying-pan 12 or of the first-fruits in the ear 13 The salt of the meat-offering ANd when any will offer a meat-offering unto the LORD his offering shall be of fine flour and he shall pour oyl upon it and put frankincense thereon 2 And he shall bring it to Aarons sons the priests and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof and of the oyl thereof with all the frankincense thereof and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 3 And * Ecclus 7.31 the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aarons and his sons it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire 4 ¶ And if thou bring an oblation of a meat-offering baken in the oven it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oyl or unleavened waters anointed with oyl 5 ¶ And if thy oblation be a meat-offering baken ‖ Or on a flat plate or slite in a pan it shall be of fine flour unleavened mingled with oyl 6 Thou shalt part it in pieces pour oyl thereon it is a meat-offering 7 ¶ And if thy oblation be a meat-offering baken in the frying-pan it shall be made of fine flour with oyl 8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD and when it is presented unto the priest he shall bring it unto the altar 9 And the priest shall take from the meat-offering * Pet. 2. a memorial thereof and shall burn it upon the altar it is an * Exod. 29.18 offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 10 And that which is lest of the meat-offering shall be Aarons and his sons it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire 11 No meat-offering which ye shall bring unto the LORD shall be made with leaven for ye shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering of the LORD made by fire 12 ¶ As for the oblation of the first-fruits ye shall offer them unto the LORD but they shall not †Heb. astend be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour 13 And every oblation of thy meat-offering * Mar. 9. â—â— shalt thou season with salt neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat-offering with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt 14 And if thou offer a meat-offering of thy first-fruits unto the LORD thou shalt offer for the meat-offering of thy first-fruits green ears of corn dried by the fire even corn beaten out of full ears 15 And thou shalt put oyl upon it and lay frankincense thereon it is a meat-offering 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it part of the beaten corn thereof and part of the oyl thereof with all the frankincense thereof it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD CHAP. III. 1 The peace-offering of the herd 6 of the flock 7 either a lamb 12 or a goat ANd if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be a male or female he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and Aarons sons the priests shall sprinkle the bloud upon the altar round about 3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD * Exod. 29.21 the ‖ Or suâ—t fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards 4 And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the flanks and the ‖ Or midriff over the liver and over the kidneys caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away 5 And Aarons sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt-sacrifice which is upon the wood that is on the fire it is an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 6 ¶ And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offering unto the LORD be of the flock male or female he shall offer it without blemish 7 If he offer a lamb for his offering then shall he offer it before the LORD 8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation and Aarons sons shall sprinkle the bloud thereof round about upon the altar 9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD the fat thereof and the whole rump it shall be take off hard by the back-bone and the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards 10 And the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall be take away 11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD 12 ¶ And if his offering be a goat then he shall offer it before the LORD 13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the bloud thereof upon the altar round about 14 And he shall offer thereof his offering even an offering made by fire unto the LORD the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards 15 And the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away 16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour * Ch. 7.25 All the fat is the LORDS 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that ye eat neither fat nor * Gen. 9.4 Chap. 7.25 17.14 bloud CHAP. IV. 1 The sin-offering of ignorance 3 for the priest 13 for the
the fat of the peace-offerings 13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar it shall never go out 14 ¶ * Ch. 2.1 〈◊〉 15.4 And this is the law of the meat-offering the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD before the altar 15 And he shall take of it his handful of the flour of the meat-offering and of the oyl thereof and all the frankincense which is upon the meat-offering and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour even the * Chap. â— 9 memorial of it unto the LORD 16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it 17 It â—â—all not be baken with leaven I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire it is most holy as is the sin-offering and as the trespass-offering 18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire * â—xod 1â— 37 Every one that toucheth them shall be holy 19 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed the tenth part of an * Exod. 16.36 ephah of fine flour for 2 meat-offering perpetual half of it in the morning and half thereof at night 21 In a pan it shall be made with oyl and when it is baken thou shalt bring it in and the baken pieces of the meat-offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD 22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it It is a statute for ever unto the LORD it shall be whollâ— burnt 23 For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt it shall not be eaten 24 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 25 Speak unto Aaton and to 〈…〉 saying This is the law of the sin-offering In the place where the burnt-offâ—ring is killed shall the sin-offering be killed before the LORD it is moâ—t holy 26 The priest that offâ—râ—th â—t for sin shall eat it in the holy place shall it be eaten in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation 27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy and when there is sprinkled of the bloud thereof upon any garment thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place 28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden * Chap. 11.33 shall be broken and if it be sodden in a brasen pot it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water 29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof it is most holy 30 * Hebr. 13.11 And no sin-offering whereof any of the bloud is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place shall be eaten it shall be burnt in the fire CHAP. VII 1 The law of the trespass-offering 11 and of the peace-offerings 12 whether it be for a thanksgiving 16 or a vow or a free-will-offering 22 The fat 26 and the bloud are forbidden 28 The priests portion in the peace-offâ—rings LIkewise this is the law of the trespass-offering it is most holy 2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the trespass-offering and the bloud thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards 4 And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the flanks and the caul that is above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away 5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD it is a trespass-offering 6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof it shall be eaten in the holy place it is most holy 7 As the sin-offering is so is the trespass-offering there is one law for them the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it 8 And the priest that offereth any mans burnt-offering even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered 9 And all the meat-offering that is baken in the oven and all that is dressed in the frying-pan and ‖ Or on the flat plate or slice in the pan shall be the priests that offereth it 10 And every meat-offering mingled with oyl and dry shall all the sons of Aaron have one as much as another 11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings which he shall offer unto the LORD 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oyl and unleavened wafers anointed with oyl and cakes mingled with oyl of fine flour fryed 13 Besides the cakes he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace-offerings 14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave-offering unto the LORD and it shall be the priests that sprinkleth the bloud of the peace-offerings 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered he shall not leave any of it until the morning 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow or a voluntary offering it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten 17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire 18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be eaten at all on the third day it shall not be accepted neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it it shall be an abomination and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity 19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten it shall be burnt with fire and as for the flesh all that be clean shall eat thereof 20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings that pertain unto the LORD * Chap 15.3 having his uncleanness upon him even that soul shall be cut off from his people 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing as the uncleanness of man or any unclean beast or any abominable unclean thing and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings which pertain unto the LORD even that soul shall be cut off from his people 22 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 23 Speak unto the children of Israel saying * Chap. 3.17 Ye shall eat no manner fat of ox or of sheep or of goat 24 And the fat of the
†Heb carcase beast that dieth of it self and the fat of that which is torn with beasts may be used in any other use but ye shall in no wise eat of it 25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people 26 * Gen. 9.4 Chap. 3.17 17.14 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of bloud whether it be of fowl or of beast in any of your dwellings 27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of bloud even that soul shall be cut off from his people 28 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 29 Speak unto the children of Israel saying He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire the fat with the breast it shall he bring that * Exod 29.24 the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the LORD 31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar but the breast shall be Aarons and his sons 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave-offering of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings 33 He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the bloud of the peace-offerings and the fat shall have the right shoulder for his part 34 For the wave-breast and the heave-shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace-offerings and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel 35 ¶ This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron and of the anointing of his sons out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priests office 36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel in the day that he anointed them by a statute for ever throughout their generations 37 This is the law of the burnt-offering of the meat-offering and of the sin-offering and of the trespass-offering and of the consecrations and of the sacrifice of the peace-offerings 38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai CHAP. VIII 1 Moses consecrateth Aaron and his sons 14 Their sin-offering 18 Their burnt-offering 22 The ram of consecrations 31 The place and time of their consecration ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Take Aaron and his sons with him and * Ex. 28.2 4 the garments and * Ex. 30.24 the anointing oyl and a bullock for the sin-offering and two rams and a basket of unleavened bread 3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 5 And Moses said unto the congregation * Exod. 29.4 This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done 6 And Moses brought Aaron his sons washed them with water 7 And he put upon him the coat and girded him with the girdle and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod and bound it unto him therewith 8 And he put the breast-plate upon him also he * Exod. 28.30 put in the breast-plate the Urim and Thummim 9 And he put the mitre upon his head also upon the mitre even upon his forefront did he put the golden plate the holy crown as the LORD * Exod. 28.39 c. commanded Moses 10 And Moses took the anointing oyl and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein and sanctified them 11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar all his vessels both the laver his foot to sanctifie them 12 And he * Ps 133.2 Ecclus 45.15 poured of the anointing oyl upon Aarons head and anointed him to sanctifie him 13 And Moses brought Aarons sons and put coats upon them and girded them with girdles and †Heb. bound put bonnets upon them as the LORD commanded Moses 14 * Exod. 29.1 And he brought the bullock for the sin-offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin-offering 15 And he slew it and Moses took the bloud and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified the altar and poured the bloud at the bottom of the altar and sanctified it to make reconciliation upon it 16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and Moses burned it upon the altar 17 But the bullock and his hide his flesh and his dung he burnt with fire without the camp as the LORD * Ex. 29.14 commanded Moses 18 ¶ And he brought the ram for the burnt-offering and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram 19 And he killed it and Moses sprinkled the bloud upon the altar round about 20 And he cut the ram into pieces and Moses burnt the head and the pieces and the fat 21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar it was a burnt-sacrifice for a sweet savour and an offering made by fire unto the LORD as the LORD commanded Moses 22 ¶ And * Ex. 29.31 he brought the other ram the ram of consecration and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram 23 And he slew it and Moses took of the bloud of it and put it upon the tip of Aarons right ear and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot 24 And he brought Aarons sons and Moses put of the bloud upon the tip of their right ear and upon the thumbs of their right hands upon the great toes of their right feet and Moses sprinkled the bloud upon the altar round about 25 And he took the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right shoulder 26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened cake and a cake of oyled bread and one wafer and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder 27 And he put all * Ex. 27.24 c. upon Aarons hands and upon his sons hands and waved them for a wave-offering before the LORD 28 And Moses took them
from off their hands and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt-offering they were consecrations for a sweet savour it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD 29 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD for of the ram of consecration it was Moses * Exe. 29.26 part as the LORD commanded Moses 30 And Moses took of the anointing oyl and of the bloud which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon his sons garments with him and sanctified Aaron and his garments and his sons and his sons garments with him 31 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons Boyl the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and there * Ex. 29 31. eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations as I commanded saying Aaron and his sons shall eat it 32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire 33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days until the days of your consecration be at an end for * Ex. 29 31. seven days shall he consecrate you 34 As he hath done this day so the LORD hath commanded to do to make an atonement for you 35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and nigâ—t seven days and keep the charge of the LORD that ye die not for so I am commanded 36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses CHAP. IX 1 The first offerings of Aaron for himself and the people 8 The sin-offering 12 and the burnt-offering for himself 15 The offerings for the people 23 Moses and Aaron bless the people 24 Fire cometh from the Lord upon the altar ANd it came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel 2 And he said unto Aaron * Ex. 29.1 Take thee a young call for a sin-offering and a ram for a burnt-offering without blemish and offer them before the LORD 3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak saying Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin-offering and a calf and a lamb both of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering 4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace-offerings to sacrifice before the LORD and a meat-offering mingled with oyl for to day the LORD will appear unto you 5 ¶ And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD 6 And Moses said This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you 7 And Moses said unto Aaron Go unto the altar and offer thy sin-offering and thy burnt-offering and make an atonement for thy self and for the people and offer the offering of the people and make an atonement for them as the LORD commanded 8 ¶ Aaron therefore went unto the altar and slew the calf of the sin-offering which was for himself 9 And the sons of Aaron brought the bloud unto him and he dipt his finger in the bloud and put it upon the horns of the altar and poured out the bloud at the bottom of the altar 10 But the fat and the kidneys and the caul above the liver of the sin-offering he burnt upon the altar as the LORD commanded Moses 11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp 12 And he slew the burnt-offering and Aarons sons presented unto him the bloud which he sprinkled round about upon the altar 13 And they presented the burnt-offering unto him with the pieces thereof and the head and he burnt them upon the altar 14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs and burnt them upon the burnt-offering on the altar 15 ¶ And he brought the peoples offering and took the goat which was the sin offering for the people and slew it and offered it for sin as the first 16 And he brought the burnt-offering and offered it according to the ‖ Or ordinance manner 17 And he brought the meat-offering and †Heb. filled his hand out of it took an handful thereof and burnt it upon the altar * Ex. 39.38 beside the burnt-sacrifice of the morning 18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings which was for the people and Aarons sons presented unto him the bloud which he sprinkled upon the altar round about 19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram the rump and that which covereth the inwards and the kidneys and the caul above the liver 20 And they put the fat upon the breasts he burnt the fat upon the altar 21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD as Moses commanded 22 And Aaron lift up his hand towards the people and blessed them and came down from offering of the sin-offering and the burnt-offering and peace-offerings 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation and came out and blessed the people and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people 24 And * Gen. 4.4 1 Kin. 18.38 2 Chro. 7.1 2 Mac. 2.10 11. there came a fire out from before the LORD and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat which when all the people saw they shouted and tell on their faces CHAP. X. 1 Nadab and Abihu for offering of strange fire are burnt by fire 6 Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them 8 The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle 12 The law of eating the hâ—ly things 16 Aarons excuse for transgressing thereof ANd * Num. â— 4 26.6 1 Chr. 24.2 Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the LORD which he commanded them not 2 And there went out fire from the LORD and devoured them and they died before the LORD 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron This is it that the LORD spake saying I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all tâ—e people I will be glorified And Aaron held his peace 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron and said unto them Come near carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp 5 So they went near and carried them in their coats out of the camp as Moses had said 6 And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar his sons Uncover not your heads neither rend your clothes lest you die and lest wrath come upon all the people but let your brethren the
in water and be unclean until the even 17 And every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation shall be washed with water and be unclean until the even 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the even 19 ¶ And if a woman have an issue and her issue in her flesh be bloud she shall be †Heb. in her separation put apart seven days and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 23 And if it be on her bed or on any thing whereon she sitteth when he toucheth it he shall be unclean until the even 24 And if any man lie with her at all and her flowers be upon him he shall be unclean seven days and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean 25 And if a woman have an issue of her bloud many days out of the time of her separation or if it run beyond the time of her separation all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation she shall be unclean 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water be unclean until the even 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue then she shall number to her self seven days and after that she shall be clean 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness that they die not in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue and of him whose seed goeth from him and is defiled therewith 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers and of him that hath an issue of the man and of the woman and of him that lieth with her which is unclean CHAP. XVI 1 How the high priest must enter into the hâ—ly place 11 The sin-offering for himself 15 The sin-offering for the people 20 The scape-goat 29 The yearly feast of the expâ—ations ANd the LORD spake unto Moses after * Chap. 10.2 the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before the LORD and died 2 And the LORD said unto Moses Speak unto Aaron thy brother that he * Ex. 30.10 Hebr. 9.7 come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark that he die not for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin-offering and a ram for a burnt-offering 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh and shall be girded with the linen girdle and with the linen mitre shall he be attired these are holy garments therefore shall he wash his flesh in water and so put them on 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt-offering 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself and * Hebr. 9.7 make an atonement for himself and for his house 7 And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the †Heb. Azazâ—l scape-goat 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORDS lot †Heb. went up fell and offer him for a sin-offering 10 But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scape-goat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scape-goat into the wilderness 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself 12 And he shall take a censer-full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the vail 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony that he die not 14 And * Hebr. â— 13 10.4 he shall take of the bloud of the bullock and * Cha. 4. â— sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat east-ward and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the bloud with his finger seven times 15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his bloud within the vail and do with that bloud as he did with the bloud of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat and before the mercy seat 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that †Heb. dwelleth remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness 17 * Luk. 1 1â— And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his houshold and for all the congregation of Israel 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD and make an atonement for it and shall take of the bloud of the bullock of the bloud of the goat put it upon the horns of the altar round about 19 And he shall sprinkle of the bloud upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel
20 ¶ And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place the tabernacle of the congregation the altar he shall bring the live goat 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins putting them upon the head of the goat and shall send him away by the hand of †Heb. a man of opportunity a fit man into the wilderness 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land †Heb. of separation not inhabited and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness 23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place and shall leave them there 24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come forth and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people and make an atonement for himself and for the people 25 And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar 26 And he that let go the goat for the scape-goat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward come into the camp 27 * Cha. â— 20 Heb. 13 1â— And the bullock for the sin-offering and the goat for the sin-offering whose bloud was brought in to make atonement in the holy place shall one carry forth without the camp and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung 28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp 29 ¶ And this shall be a statute for ever unto you that in the seventh moneth on the tenth day of the moneth ye shall afflict your souls and do no work at all whether it be one of your own countrey of a stranger that sojourneth among you 30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement foâ— you to cleanse you that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever 32 And the priest whom he shall anoint and whom he shall †Heb. till his hand consecrate to minister in the priests office in his fathers stead shall make the atonement and shall put on the linen clothes even the holy garments 33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary and â—e shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation and for the altar and he shall make an atonement for the priests and for all the people of the congregation 34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins * Exod. 30.10 Hebr. â— 7 once a year And he did as the LORD commanded Moses CHAP. XVII 1 The bloud of all slain beasts must be offered to the Lord at the door of the tabernacle 7 They must not offer to devils 10 All eating of bloud is forbidden 15 and all that dâ—th alone or is torn ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and unto all the children of Israel and say unto them This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded saying 3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox or lamb or goat in the camp or that killeth it out of the camp 4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD bloud shall be imputed unto that man he hath shed bloud and that man shall be cut off from among his people 5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field even that they may brâ—ng them unto the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation unto the priest and ofter them for peace-offerings unto the LORD 6 And the priest shall sprinkle the bloud upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and burn the sat for a * Exod. 20.18 Chap. 4.31 sweet savour unto the LORD 7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom they have gone a whoring This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generaâ—ions 8 ¶ And thou shalt say unto them whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel or of the strangers which sojourn among you that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice 9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer it unto the LORD even that man shall be cut off from among his people 10 ¶ And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of bloud I will even set my face against that soul that eateth bloud and will cut him off from among his people 11 For the life of the flesh is in the bloud and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the bloud that maketh an atonement for the soul 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel No soul of you shall eat bloud neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat bloud 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you †Heb. that hunteth any hunting which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten he shall even pour out the bloud thereof and cover it with dust 14 * Gen. 9.4 For it is the life of all flesh the bloud of it is for the life thereof therefore I said unto the children of Israel Ye shall eat the bloud of no manner of flesh for the life of all flesh is the bloud thereof whosoever eateth it shall be cut off 15 And every soul that eateth †Heb. a carcase that which died of it self or that which was torn with beasts whether it be one of your own countrey or a stranger he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even then shall he be clean 16 But if he wash them not nor bathe his flesh then he shall bear his iniquity CHAP. XVIII 1Vnlawful marriages 19Vnlawful lusts ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them I am the LORD your God 3 After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt shall ye not do and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances 4 Ye shall do my judgements and
nor of thy fathers sister for he uncovereth his near kin they shall bear their iniquity 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncles wife he hath uncovered his uncles nakedness they shall bear their sin they shall die childless 21 And if a man shall take his brothers wife â—t is †Heb. a separation an unclean thing he hath uncovered his brothers nakedness they shall be childless 22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my * Chap. 18.26 statutes and all my judgements and do them that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein * Chap. 18.25 spue you not out 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you for they committed all these things and * Deut. 9.5 therefore I abhorred them 24 But I have said unto you Ye shall inherit their land I will give it unto you to possess it a land that floweth with milk and honey I am the LORD your God which have separated you from other people 25 * Chap. 11.2 Deut. 14.4 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean between unclean fowls and clean and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl or by any manner of living thing that ‖ Or moveth creepeth on the ground which I have separated from you as unclean 26 And ye shall be holy unto me * Vers 7. Chap. 19.2 1 Pet. â— 16 for I the LORD am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine 27 ¶ * Deut. 18.11 1 Sam. 28.7 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones their bloud sâ—all be upon them CHAP. XXI 1 Of the priests mourning 6 Of their hâ—liness 8 Of their estimation 7 13 Of their marriages 16 The priests that have blemishes must not miniâ—ter in the sanctuary ANd the LORD said unto Moses Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron and say unto them There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people 2 But for his kin that is near unto him that is for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother 3 And for his sister a virgin that is nigh unto him which hath had no husband for her may he be defiled 4 But ‖ Or being an husband among his people be shall not defile himself for his wife c. he shall not defile himself being a chief man among his people to profane himself 5 * Chap. 19.27 They shall not make baldness upon their head neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard nor make any cuttings in their flesh 6 They shall be holy unto their God and not profane the name of their God for the offerings of the LORD made by fire and the bread of their God they do offer therefore they shall be holy 7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore or profane neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband for he is holy unto his God 8 Thou shalt sanctifie him therefore for he offereth the bread of thy God he shall be holy unto thee for I the LORD which sanctifie you am holy 9 ¶ And the daughter of any priest if she profane her self by playing the whore she profaneth her father she shall be burnt with fire 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren upon whose head the anointing oyl was poured and that is consecrated to put on the garments shall not uncover his head nor rend his clothes 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body nor defile himself for his father or for his mother 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God for the crown of the anointing oyl of his God is upon him I am the LORD 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginâ—ty 14 A widow or a divorced woman or profane or an harlot these shall he not take but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people for I the LORD do sanctifie him 16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 17 Speak unto Aaron saying Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish let him not approach to offer the ‖ Or food bread of his God 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish he shall not approach a blinde man or a lame or he that hath a flat nose or any thing * Chap. 22.23 superfluous 19 Or a man that is broken-footed or broken-handed 20 Or crook-backt or ‖ Or too slender a dwarf or that hath a blemish in his eye or be scurvy or scabbed or hath his stones broken 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire he hath a blemish he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God 22 He shall eat the bread of his God both of the most holy and of the holy 23 Onely he shall not go in unto the vail nor come nigh unto the altar because he hath a blemish that he profane not my sanctuarieâ— for I the LORD do sanctifie them 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron and to his sons and unto all the children of Israel CHAP. XXII 1 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things 6 How they shall be cleansed 10 Who of the priests house may eat of the holy things 17 The sacrifices must be without blemish 26 The age of the sacrifice 29 The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me I am the LORD 3 Say unto them Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations that goeth unto the holy things which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD having his uncleanness upon him that soul shall be cut off from my presence I am the LORD 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or hath * Chap. 15.2 a †Heb. running of the reins running issue he shall not eat of the holy things until he be clean And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead or a man whose seed goeth from him 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean or a man of whom he may take uncleanness whatsoever uncleanness he hath 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water
morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days and ye shall offer a new-meat-offering unto the LORD 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-deals they shall be of fine flour they shall be baken with leaven they are the first-fruits unto the LORD 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year and one young bullock and two rams they shall be for a burnt-offering unto the LORD with their meat-offering their drink-offerings even an offering made by fire of sweet savour unto the LORD 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin-offering and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD with the two lambs they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest 21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same day that it may be an holy convocation unto you ye shall do no servile work therein It shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations 22 ¶ And * Chap. 19.9 when ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest * Deut. 24.19 neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger I am the LORD your God 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 Speak unto the children of Israel saying In the * Num. 29.1 seventh moneth in the first day of the moneth shall ye have a sabbath a memorial of blowing of trumpets an holy convocation 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD 26 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 27 * Chap. 16.30 Numb 29.7 Also on the tenth day of this seventh moneth there shall be a day of atonement it shall be an holy convocation unto you and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day he shall be cut off from among his people 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day the same soul will I destroy from among his people 31 Ye shall do no manner of work It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the moneth at even from even unto even shall ye †Heb. rest celebrate your sabbath 33 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 34 Speak unto the children of Israel saying * Numb 29.12 The fifteenth day of this seventh moneth shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD 35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD * Joh. 7.37 on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD it is a †Heb. day of restraint solemn assembly and ye shall do no servile work therein 37 These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD a burnt-offering and a meat-offering a sacrifice and drink-offerings ever thing upon his day 38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD and beside your gifts and beside all your vows and beside all your free-will-offerings which ye give unto the LORD 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days on the first day shall be a sabbath and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the †Heb. fruit boughs of goodly trees branches of palm-trees and the boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook and ye shall rejoyce before the LORD your God seven days 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year It shall be a statute for ever in your generations ye shall celebrate it in the seventh moneth 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I am the LORD your God 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD CHAP. XXIV 1 The oyl for the lamps 5 The shew-bread 10 Shelomiths son blasphemeth 13 The law of blasphemy 17 Of murder 18 Of damage 23 The Hasphemer is stoned ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure oyl-olive beaten for the light †Heb to cause to ascend to cause the lamps to burn continually 3 Without the vail of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually It shall be a statute for ever in your generations 4 He shall order the lamps upon * Exod. 31.8 the pure candlestick before the LORD continually 5 ¶ And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve * Exod. 25.30 cakes thereof two tenth-deals shall be in one cake 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows six on a row upon the pure table before the LORD 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row that it may be on the bread for a memorial even an offering made by fire unto the LORD 8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant 9 And * Exod. 29.33 Chap. 8.31 Mat. 12.4 it shall be Aarons and his sons and they shall eat it in the holy place for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute 10 ¶ And the son of an Israelitish woman whose father was an Egyptian went out among the children of Israel and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp 11 And the Israelitish womans son blasphemed the Name of the LORD and cursed and they brought him unto Moses and his mothers name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan 12 And they * Numb 15.34 put him in ward †Heb. to expound unto them according to
shall first set forth 10 ¶ On the south-side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur 11 And his host and those that were numbred thereof were fourty and six thousand and five hundred 12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simâ—on and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai 13 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fifty and â—ine thousand and three hundred 14 Then the tribe of Gad and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel 15 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty 16 All that were numbred in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty throughout their armies and they shall set forth in the second rank 17 ¶ Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp as they encamp so shall they set forward every man in his place by their standards 18 ¶ On the west-side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud 19 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty thousand and five hundred 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur 21 And his host and those that were numbred of them were thirty and two thousand and two hundred 22 Then the tribe of Benjamin and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni 23 And his host and those that were numbred of them were thirty and five thousand and four hundred 24 All that were numbred of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred throughout their armies and they shall go forward in the third rank 25 ¶ The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north-side by their armies and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai 26 And his host and those that were numbred of them were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred 27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran 28 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fourty and one thousand and five hundred 29 Then the tribe of Naphtali and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan 30 And his host and those that were numbred of them were fifty and three thousand and four hundred 31 All they that were numbred in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred they shall go hindmost with their standards 32 ¶ These are those which were numbred of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers all those that were numbred of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty 33 But the Levites were not numbred among the children of Israel as the LORD commanded Moses 34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses so they pitched by their standards and so they set forward every one after their families according to the house of their fathers CHAP. III. 1 The sons of Aaron 5 The Levites are given to the priests for the service of the tabernacleâ— 11 in stead of the first-born 14 The Levites are numbred by their families 21 The families number and charge of the Gershonites 27 of the Koâ—athites 33 of the Merarites 38 The place and charge of Moses and Aaron 40 The first-born are freed by the Levites 44 The overplus are redeemed THese also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron Nadab the * Exod. 6.23 first-born and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron the priests which were anointed †Heb. whose hand be filled whom he consecrated to minister in the priests office 4 * Lev. 10.1 Ch. 26.61 1 Chr. 24.2 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai and they had no children and Eleazar and Ithamar ministred in the priests office in the sight of Aaron their father 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them before Aaron the priest that they may minister unto him 7 And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation to do the service of the tabernacle 8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the children of Israel to do the service of the tabernacle 9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons and they shall wait on their priests office and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unte Moses saying 12 And I behold I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in stead of all the first-born that openeth the matrice among the children of Israel therefore the Levites shall be mine 13 Because all the first-born are mine * Exod. 13.2 Lev. 27.26 Chap. 8.16 Luk. 2.23 for on the day that I smote all the first born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel both man and beast mine they shall be I am the LORD 14 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai saying 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers by their families every male from a moneth old and upward shalt thou number them 16 And Moses numbred them according to the †Heb. mouth word of the LORD as he was commanded 17 * Gen. 46.11 Exod. 6.16 Ch. 26.57 1 Chro. 6.1 And these were the sons of Levi by their names Gershon and Kohath and Merari 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families Libni and Shimei 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families Amram and Izehar Hebron and Uzziel 20 And the sons of Merari by their families Mahli and Mushi these are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family
of the Shimites these are the families of the Gershonites 22 Those that were numbred of them according to the number of all the males from a moneth old and upward even those that were numbred of them were seven thousand and five hundred 23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behinde the tabernacle west-ward 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle and the tent the covering thereof and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 26 And the hangings of the court and the curtain for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and the cords of it for all the service thereof 27 ¶ And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izeharites and the family of the Hebronites and the family of the Uzzielites these are the families of the Kohathites 28 In the number of all the males from a moneth old and uâ—ward were eight thousand six hundred keeping the charge of the sanctâ—ary 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle south-ward 30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel 31 And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the candlestick and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister and the hanging and all the service thereof 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary 33 ¶ Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites these are the families of Merari 34 And those that were numbred of them according to the number of all the males from a moneth old and upward were six thousand and two hundred 35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle north-ward 36 And †Heb. the office of the charge under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and all the vessels thereof and all that serveth thereto 37 And the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords 38 ¶ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east even before the tabernacle of the congregation east-ward shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 39 All that were numbred of the Levites which Moses and Aaron numbred at the commandment of the LORD throughout their families all the males from a moneth old and upward were twenty and two thousand 40 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel from a moneth old and upward and take the number of their names 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me I am the LORD in stead of all the first-born among the children of Israel and the cattel of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattel of the children of Israel 42 And Moses numbred as the LORD commanded him all the first-born among the children of Israel 43 And all the first-born males by the number of names from a moneth old and upward of those that were numbred of them were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 45 Take the Levites in stead of all the first-born among the children of Israel and the cattel of the Levites in stead of their cattel and the Levites shall be mine I am the LORD 46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel which are more then the Levites 47 Thou shalt even take five shekels a piece by the poll after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them * Exod. 30.13 Lev. 27.25 Ch. 18.16 Ezek. 45.12 the shekel is twenty gerahs 48 And thou shalt give the money wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons 49 And Moses took the redemption-money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites 50 Of the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary 51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons according to the word of the LORD as the LORD commanded Moses CHAP. IV. 1 The age and time of the Levites service 4 The carriage of the Kohathites when the priests have taken down the tabernacle 16 The charge of Eleazar 17 The office of the priests 21 The carriage of the Gershonites 29 The carriage of the Merarites 34 The number of the Kohathites 38 of the Gershonites 42 and of the Merarites ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi after their families by the house of their fathers 3 From thirty years old upward even until fifty years old all that enter into the host to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation about the most holy things 5 ¶ And when the camp setteth forward Aaron shall come and his sons and they shall take down the covering vail and cover the ark of testimony with it 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers skins and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue and shall put in the staves thereof 7 And upon the * Ex. 25.30 table of shew-bread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put thereon the dishes and the spoons and the bowls and covers to ‖ Or pour out withal cover withal and the continual bread shall be thereon 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of badgers skins and shall put in the staves thereof 9 And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the * Exod. 25.31 candlestick of the light * Exod. 25.37 38. and his lamps and his tongs and his snuff-dishes and all the oyl-vessels thereof wherewith they mâ—nister unto it 10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers skins and shall put it upon a bar 11 And
commanded Moses CHAP. V. 1 The anclean are removed out of the camp 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses 11 The trial of jealousie ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every * Lev. 13.3 leper and every one that hath an * Lev. 15.2 issue and whosoever is defiled by the * Lev. 21.1 dead 3 Both male and female shall ye put out without the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof I dwell 4 And the children of Israel did so and put them out without the camp as the LORD spake unto Moses so did the children of Israel 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Speak unto the children of Israel * Levit. 6.3 When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD and that person be guilty 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompense his trespass * Levit. 6.5 with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed 8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto set the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement whereby an atonement shall be made for him 9 And every ‖ Or leave-offering offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring unto the priest shall be his 10 And every mans hallowed things shall be his whatsoever any man giveth the priest it shall be * Levit. 10.13 his 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them If any mans wife go aside and commit a trespass against him 13 And a man lie with her carnally and it he hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she be defiled and there be no witness against her neither she be taken with the manner 14 And the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be defiled or if the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be not defiled 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest and he shall bring her offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barly-meal he shall pour no oyl upon it nor put frankincense thereon for it is an offering of jealousie an offering of memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the womans head and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousie-offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman If no man have lien with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness ‖ Or being in the power of thy husband †Heb. under thy husband with another in stead of thy husband be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another in stead of thy husband and if thou be defiled and some man hath lien with thee beside thine husband 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing and the priest shall say unto the woman The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD doth make thy thigh to †Heb. fall rot and thy belly to swell 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot And the woman shall say Amen amen 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book and he shall blot them out with the bitter water 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousie-offering out of the womans hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it upon the altar 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering even the memorial thereof and burn it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass that if she be defiled and have done trespass against her husband that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot and the woman shall be a curse among her people 28 And if the woman be not defiled but be clean then she shall be free and shall conceive seed 29 This is the law of jealousies when a wise goeth aside to another in stead of her husband and is defiled 30 Or when the spirit of jealousie cometh upon him and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall execute upon her all this law 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity and this woman shall bear her iniquity CHAP. VI. 1 The law of the Nazarices 22 The form of blessing the people ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When either man or woman shall ‖ Or make themselves Nazarites separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the LORD 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vineger of wine or vineger of strong drink neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried 4 All the days of his ‖ Or Nazariteship separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the †Heb. vine of the wine vine-tree from the kernels even to the husk 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no * Judg. 13.5 1 Sam. 1.11 rasour come upon his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister when they die because the †Heb. separation consecration of his God is upon his head 8 All the days of his separation
Moses forbid them 29 And Moses said unto him Enviest thou for my sake would God that all the LORDS people were prophets and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them 30 And Moses gat him into the camp he and the elders of Israel 31 ¶ And there went forth a * Ex. 16.13 Ps 78.26 wind from the LORD brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp †Heb. as it were the way of a day as it were a days journey on this side and as it were a days journey on the other side round about the camp and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth 32 And the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the next day and they gathered the quails he that gathered least gathered ten homers and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp 33 And while the * Ps 78.30 31. flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague 34 And he called the name of that place ‖ That is The graves of lust Kibroth-hattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted 35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth and †Heb. they were in c. abode at Hazeroth CHAP. XII 1 God rebuketh the sedition of Miriam and Aaron 10 Miriams leprosie is healed at the prayer of Moses 14 God commandeth her to be shut out of the host ANd Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the ‖ Or Cushite Ethiopian woman whom he had married for he had †Heb. taken married an Ethiopian woman 2 And they said Hath the LORD indeed spoken onely by Moses hath he not spoken also by us And the LORD heard it 3 Now the man Moses was * Ecclus. 95.4 very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth 4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation And they three came out 5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forth 6 And he said Hear now my words If there be a prophet among you I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream 7 My servant Moses is not so * Heb. 3.2 who is faithful in all mine house 8 With him will I speak * Ex 33 11 mouth to mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses 9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them and he departed 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle and behold Miriam became leprous white as snow and Aaron looked upon Miriam and behold she was leprous 11 And Aaron said unto Moses Alas my lord I beseech thee lay not the sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned 12 Let her nor be as one dead of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mothers womb 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD saying Heal her now O God I beseech thee 14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses If her father had but spit in her face should she not be ashamed seven days let her be * Levit. 13 4◠shut out from the camp seven days and after that let her be received in again 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth and pitched in the wilderness of Paran CHAP. XIII 1 The names of the men who were sent to search the land 17 Their instructions 21 Their acts 26 Their relation ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Send thou men that they may search the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man every one a ruler among them 3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran all those men were heads of the children of Israel 4 And these were their names Of the tribe of Reuben Shammua the son of Zaccur 5 Of the tribe of Simeon Shaphat the son of Hori 6 Of the tribe of Judah Caleb the son of Jephunneh 7 Of the tribe of Issachar Igal the son of Joseph 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim Oshea the son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin Palti the son of Raphu 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun Gaddiel the son of Sodi 11 Of the tribe of Joseph namely of the tribe of Manasseh Gaddi the son of Susi 12 Of the tribe of Dan Ammiel the son of Gemalli 13 Of the tribe of Asher Sethur the son of Michael 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali Nahbi the son of Vophsi 15 Of the tribe of Gad Geuel the son of Machi 16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua 17 ¶ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said unto them Get you up this way south-ward and go up into the mountain 18 And see the land what it is and the people that dwelleth therein whether they be strong or weak few or many 19 And what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad and what cities they be that they dwell in whether in tents or in strong holds 20 And what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not And be ye of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land now the time was the time of the first-ripe-grapes 21 ¶ So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob as men come to Hamath 22 And they ascended by the south and came unto Hebron where Ahiman Sheshai and Talmai the children of Anak were now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt 23 * Deu. 1.24 And they came unto the ‖ Or valley brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs. 24 The place was called the ‖ Or valley brook ‖ That is a cluster of grapes Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence 25 And they returned from searching of the land after fourty days 26 ¶ And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the congregation of the children of Israel unto
the wilderness of Paran to Kadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and shewed them the fruit of the land 27 And they told him and said We came unto the land whither thou sentest us and surely it floweth with * Exod. 33.3 milk and honey and this is the fruit of it 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land and the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children of Anak there 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said Let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it 31 But the men that went up with him said We be not able to go up against the people for they are stronger then we 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel saying The land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof and all the people that we saw in it are †Heb. men of statures men of great stature 33 And there we saw the giants the sons of Anak which come of the giants and we were in our own sight as grashoppers and so we were in their sight CHAP. XIV 1 The people murmure at the news 6 Joshua and Caleb labour to still them 11 God threatneth them 13 Moses pershâ—adeth God and obtaineth pardon 26 The murmurers are deprived of entring into the land 36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague 40 The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten ANd all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole congregation said unto them Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or would God we had died in this wilderness 3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey were it not better for us to return into Egypt 4 And they said one to another Let us make a captain and let us return into Egypt 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel 6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of them that searched the land rent their clothes 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel saying The land which we passed through to search it is an exceeding good land 8 If the LORD delight in us then he will bring us into this land and give it us a land which floweth with milk and honey 9 Onely rebel not ye against the LORD neither fear ye the people of the land for they are bread for us their †Heb. scadow defence is departed from them and the LORD is with us fear them not 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones and the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel 11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses How long will this people provoke me and how long will it be ere they beleeve me for all the signs which I have shewed among them 12 I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a great nation and mightier then they 13 ¶ And * Exod. 32.12 Moses said unto the LORD Then the Egyptians shall hear it for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people that thou LORD art seen face to face and that * Exod. â—â— 21 thy cloud standeth over them and that thou goest before them by day-time in apillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the same of thee will speak saying 16 Because the LORD was not * Deut. 9.28 able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness 17 And now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great according as thou hast spoken saying 18 The LORD is * Ex. 34.6 Ps 103.8 long-suffering and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression and by no means clearing the guilty * Ex. 20.5 and 34.7 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation 19 Pardon I beseech thee the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even ‖ Or hitherto until now 20 And the LORD said I have pardoned according to thy word 21 But as truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkned to my voice 23 †Heb. if they see the land Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoked me see it 24 But my servant * Josh 14.6 Caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will I bring into the land whereinto he went and his seed shall possess it 25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley To morrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea 26 ¶ And the LORD stake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmure against me I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmure against me 28 Say unto them * Ch. 26.65 and 32.11 Deu. 1.35 As truly as I live saith the LORD as ye have spoken in mine ears so will I do to you 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbred of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I †Heb. lifted up my hand sware to make you dwell therein save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones which ye said should be a prey them will I bring in and they shall know the land which ye have despised 32 But as for you your
carcases they shall fall in this wilderness 33 And your children shall ‖ Or fied wander in the wilderness fourty years and bear your whoredoms until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land even * Ps 95.10 Ezek. 4.6 fourty days each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities even fourty years and ye shall know ‖ Or altering of my purpose my breach of promise 35 I the LORD have said I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness they shall be consumed and there they shall die 36 And the men which Moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmure against him by bringing up a slander upon the land 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land * 1 Cor. 10.10 Heb. 3.17 Jude 5. died by the plague before the LORD 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land lived still 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel and the people mourned greatly 40 ¶ And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the mountain saying Lo we * Deut. â— 41 be here and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised for we have sinned 41 And Moses said wherefore now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD but it shall not prosper 42 Go not up for the LORD is not among you that ye be not smitten before your enemies 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you and ye shall fall by the sword because ye are turned away from the LORD therefore the LORD will not be with you 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the camp 45 Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill and smote them and * Deut. 1.44 discomfited them even unto Hormah CHAP. XV. 1 The law of the meat-offering and the drink offering 13 29 The stranger is under the same law 17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave-offering 22 The sacrifice for sins of ignorance 30 The punishment of presumption 32 He that violated the sabbath is stoned 37 The law of fringes ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 * Levit. 23.10 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye be come into the land of your habitations which I give unto you 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD a burnt-offering or a sacrifice * Lev. 22 2â—â— in †Heb. separating performing a vow or in a free-will-offering or in your solemn feasts to make a * Ex. 29.18 sweet savour unto the LORD of the herd or of the flock 4 Then * Lev. 2.1 shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat-offering of a tenth-deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oyl 5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice for one lamb 6 Or for a ram thou shalt prepare for a meat-offering two tenth-deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oyl 7 And for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine for a sweet savour unto the LORD 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering or for a sacrifice in performing a vow or peace-offerings unto the LORD 9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat-offering of three tenth-deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oyl 10 And thou shalt bring for a drink-offering half an hin of wine for an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock or for one ram or for a lamb or a kid 12 According to the number that ye shall prepare so shall ye do to every one according to their number 13 All that are born of the countrey shall do these things after this manner in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you or whosoever be among you in your generations and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD as ye do so he shall do 15 * Ex. 12.49 Ch. 9.14 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you an ordinance for ever in your generations as ye are so shall the stranger be before the LORD 16 One law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 18 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When ye come into the land whither I bring you 19 Then it shall be that when ye eat of the bread of the land ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the LORD 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dought for an heave-offering as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor so shall ye heave it 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave-offering in your generations 22 ¶ And if ye have erred and not observed all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses 23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the LORD commanded Moses and henceforward among your generations 24 Then it shall be if ought be committed by ignorance †Heb. from the eyes without the knowledge of the congregation that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD with his meat-offering and his drink-offering according to the ‖ Or ordinance manner and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel and it shall be forgiven them for it is ignorance and they shall bring their offering a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD and their sin-offering before the LORD for their ignorance 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger that sojourneth among them seeing all the people were in ignorance 27 ¶ And * Levit. 4.27 if any soul sin through ignorance then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering 28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD to make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him 29 You shall have one law for
him that †Heb. doeth sinneth through ignorance both for him that is born amongst the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them 30 ¶ But the soul that doeth ought †Heb. with an high hand presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from among his people 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him 32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation 34 And they put him * Lev. 24.12 in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him 35 And the LORD said unto Moses The man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died as the LORD commanded Moses 37 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 38 Speak unto the children of Israel and bid * Deut. 22.12 Mat. 23.5 them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye use to go a whoring 40 That ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God 41 I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD your God CHAP. XVI 1 The rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents 31 The earth swalloweth up Korah and a fire consumeth others 36 The censers are reserved to holy use 41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague for murmuring against Moses and Aaron 46 Aaron by incense stayeth the plague NOw * Ch. 27.3 Ecclus 45.18 Jude 11. Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and On the son of Peleth sons of Reuben took men 2 And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly * Ch. 26.9 famous in the congregation men of renown 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them †Heb. It is much for you Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy everyone of them and the LORD is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the congregation of the LORD 4 And when Moses heard it he fell upon his face 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company saying Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him 6 This do take you censers Korah and all his company 7 And put fire therein and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said unto Korah Hear I pray you ye sons of Levi 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them 10 And he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the priesthood also 11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD and what is Aaron that ye murmure against him 12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab which said We will not come up 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a prince over us 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards wilt thou †Heb. here out put out the eyes of these men we will not come up 15 And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD * Gen. 4 4. Respect not thou their offering I have not taken one ass from them neither have I hurt one of them 16 And Moses said unto Korah Be thou and all thy company before the LORD thou and they and Aaron to morrow 17 And take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer two hundred and fifty censers thou also and Aaron each of you his censer 18 And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and said incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 21 Separate your selves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment 22 And they fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 Speak unto the congregation saying Get you up from about the taberlacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram and the elders of Israel followed him 26 And he spake unto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little children 28 And Moses said Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works for I have not done them of mine own minde 29 If these men die †Heb. as every man dieth the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priests office for every thing of the altar and within the vail and ye shall serve I have given your priests office unto you as a service of gift and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Behold I also have given thee the charge of mine heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing to thy sons by an ordinance for ever 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire every oblation of theirs every meat-offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it every male shall eat it it shall be holy unto thee 11 And this is thine the heave offering of their gift with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel I have given them unto * Levi◠1◠14 thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it 12 All the †Heb. sat best of the oyl and all the best of the wine and of the wheat the first-fruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD them have I given thee 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land which they shall bring unto the LORD shall be thine every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it 14 * Levit. 27.28 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine 15 Everything that openeth * Ex. 13.2 22.29 Lev. 26.27 Chap. 3.12 the matrix in all flesh which they bring unto the LORD whether it be of men or beasts shall be thine nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a moneth old shalt thou redeem according to thine estimation for the money of five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary * Ex. 30.12 Lev. 27.25 Ch. 3.47 Ez. 45.12 which is twenty gerahs 17 But the firstling of a cow or the firstling of a sheep or the firstling of a goat thou shalt not redeem they are holy thou shalt sprinkle their bloud upon the altar and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a sweet savour unto the LORD 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine as the * Ex. 29.26 wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine 19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD have I given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee 20 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land neither shalt thou have any part among them * Deut. 10.9 and 18.2 Jos 13.14 33. Ez 44.28 I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel 21 And behold I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation * Heb. to die lest they bear sin †and die 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and they shall bear their iniquity It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel which they offer as an heave-offering unto the LORD I have given to the Levites to inherit therefore I have said unto them Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance 25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 26 Thus speak unto the Levites and say unto them When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance then ye shall offer up an heave-offering of it for the LORD even a tenth part of the tithe 27 And this your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor and as the fulness of the wine-press 28 Thus you also shall offer an heave-offering unto the LORD of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel and ye shall give thereof the LORDs heave-offering to Aaron the priest 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD of all the †Heb. sat best thereof even the hallowed part thereof out of it 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them When ye have heaved the best thereof from it then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor and as the encrease of the wine press 31 And ye shall eat it in every place ye and your housholds for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it when ye have heaved from it the best of it neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel lest ye die CHAP. XIX 1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifr 11 The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded saying Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring thee a red heifer without spot wherein is no blemish and upon which never came yoke 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest that he may bring her * Heb. 13.11 forth without the camp and one shall slay her before his face 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her bloud with his finger and * Heb. 9.13 sprinkle of her bloud directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times 5 And one shall burn the heifet in his sight * Ex. 29.14 Levit. 4.11 12. her skin and her flesh and her bloud with her dung shall he burn 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp and the priest shall be unclean until the even 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and shall be unclean until the even 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up without
the camp in a clean place and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation it is a purification for sin 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even and it shall be unto the children of Israel and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute for ever 11 ¶ He that toucheth the dead body of any †Heb. soul of man man shall be unclean seven days 12 He shall purifie himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day he shall be clean but if he purifie not himself the third day then the seventh day he shall not be clean 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead and purifieth not himself defileth the tabernacle of the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from Israel because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him he shall be unclean his uncleanness is yet upon him 14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent all that come into the tent and all that is in the tent shall be unclean seven days 15 And every open vessel which hath no covering bound upon it is unclean 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a bone of a man or a grave shall be unclean seven days 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the †Heb. dust ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin and †Heb. living waters shall be given running water shall be put thereto in a vessel 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons that were there and upon him that touched a bone or one slain or one dead or a grave 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and on the seventh day he shall purifie himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean at even 20 But the man that shall be unclean and shall not purifie himself that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him he is unclean 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even 22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even CHAP. XX. 1 The children of Israel come to Zin where Miriam dieth 2 They murmure for want of water 7 Moses smiting the rock bringeth forth water at Meribah 14 Moses at Kadesh desireth passage through Edom which is denied him 22 At mount Hor Aaron resigneth his place to Eleazar and dieth THen came the children of Israel even the whole congregation into the desert of Zin in the first moneth and the people abode in Kadesh and Miriam died there and was buried there 2 And there was no water for the congregation and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron 3 And the people * Ex. 17.2 chode with Moses and spake saying Would God that we had died * Ch. 11.33 when our brethren died before the LORD 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness that we and our cattel should die there 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place it is no place of seed or of figs or vines or of pomegranates neither is there any water to drink 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and they fell upon their faces and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them 7 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 8 Take the rod and gather thou the assembly together thou and Aaron thy brother and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD as he commmanded him 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock and he said unto them Hear now ye rebels must we fetch you water out of this rock 11 And Moses lift up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice and the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also 12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron Because ye beleeved me not to sanctifie me in the eyes of the children of Israel therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them 13 * Pâ— 1â—6 32 c. This is the water of ‖ That is strite Meribah because the children of Israel strove with the LORD and he was sanctified in them 14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king or Edom Thus saith thy brother Israel thou knowest all the travel that hath †Heb. found us befallen us 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time and the Egyptians vexed us and our fathers 16 And when we cried unto the LORD he heard our voice and sent an Angel and hath brought us forth out of Egypt and behold we are in kadesh a city in the uttermost of thy border 17 Let us pass I pray thee through thy countrey we will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will go by the kings high-way we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed thy borders 18 And Edom said unto him Thou shalt not pass by me lest I come out against thee with the sword 19 And the children of Israel said unto him We will go by the high-way and if I and my cattel drink of thy water then I will pay for it I will onely without doing any thing else go through on my feet 20 And he said Thou shalt not go through And Edom came out against him with much people and with a strong hand 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border wherefore Israel turned away from him 22 ¶ And the children of Israel even the whole congregation journeyed from * Chap. 33.37 kadesh and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor by the coast of the land of Edom saying 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people for he shall not enter into the
land which I have given unto the children of Israel because ye rebelled against my †Heb. mouth word at the water of Meribah 25 * Ch. 33.38 Deu. 32.50 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up unto mount Hor 26 And strip Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people and shall die there 27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son and * Deu. 10.6 32 50. Aaron died there in the top of the mount and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount 29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead they mourned for Aaron thirty days even all the house of Israel CHAP. XXI 1 Israel with some loss destroy the Canaanites at Hormah 4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents 7 They repenting are healed by a brasen serpent 10 Sundry journeys of the Israelites 21 Sihon is overcome 33 and Og. ANd when * Cha. 33.40 king Arad the Canaanite which dwelt in the south heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies then he sought against Israel and took some of them prisoners 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD said If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then I will utterly destroy their cities 3 And the LORD hearkned to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites and they utterly destroyed them and their cities and he called the name of the place ‖ That is utter destruction Hormah 4 ¶ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea to compass the land of Edom and the soul of the people was much ‖ Or grieved †Heb. shortned discouraged because of the way 5 And the people spake against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water * Ch. 11.6 our soul lotheth this light bread 6 And * Wis 16.1 5. 1 Cor. 10.9 the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died 7 ¶ Therefore the people came to Moses and said We have sinned for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee pray unto the LORD that he take away the serpents from us and Moses prayed for the people 8 And the LORD said unto Moses Make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live 9 And * 2 Kin. 18.4 Joh. 3.14 Moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived 10 ¶ And the children of Israel set forward and * Ch. 33.43 pitched in Oboth 11 And they journeyed from Oboth and pitched at ‖ Or bâ—aps of Abarim Ije-abarim in the wilderness which is before Moab toward the sun-rising 12 ¶ From thence they removed and pitched in the valley of Zared 13 From thence they removed and pitched on the other side of Arnon which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites for Arnon is the border of Moab between Moab and the Amorites 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD ‖ Or Vabeh in Suphab What he did in the Red sea and in the brooks of Arnon 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar and †Heb. leaneth lieth upon the border of Moab 16 And from thence they went to Beer that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses Gather the people together and I will give them water 17 ¶ Then Israel sang this song †Heb. Ascend Spring up O well ‖ Or answer sing ye unto it 18 The princes digged the well the nobles of the people digged it by the directions of the law giver with their staves And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth 20 And from Bamoth in the valley that is in the †Heb. field countrey of Moab to the top of ‖ Or the hill Pisgah which looketh toward ‖ Or the wilderness Jeshimon 21 ¶ And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites saying 22 * Deu. 2 27. Judg. 11.19 Let me pass through thy land we will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards we will not drink of the waters of the well but we will go along by the kings high-way until we be past thy borders 23 * Deu. 29.7 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border but Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel into the wilderness and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel 24 And * Jos 12.2 Ps 135.10 11. Am. 2.9 Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok even unto the children of Ammon for the border of the children of Ammon was strong 25 And Israel took all these cities and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon and in all the †Heb. daughters villages thereof 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand even unto Arnon 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say Come into Heshbon let the city of Sihon be built and prepared 28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon a flame from the city of Sihon it hath consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon 29 Wo to thee Moab thou art undone O people of * 1 Kin. 11.7 33. Chemosh he hath given his sons that escaped and his daughters into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites 30 We have shot at them Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah which reacheth unto Medeba 31 ¶ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer and they took the villages thereof and drove out the Amorites that were there 33 ¶ * Deu. 3.1 29.7 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan and Og the king of Bashan went out against them he and all his people to the battel at Edrei 34 And the LORD said unto Moses Fear him not for I have delivered him into thy hand and all his people and his land and * Ps 135.10.11 thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Chap. 16.2 famous in the congregation who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against the LORD 10 And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men and they became a signe 11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not 12 ¶ The sons of Simeon after their families of Nemuel the family of the Nemuelites of Jamin the family of the Jaminites of Jachin the family of the Jachinites 13 Of Zerah the family of the Zarhites of Shaul the family of the Shaulites 14 These are the families of the Simeonites twenty and two thousand and two hundred 15 ¶ The children of Gad after their families of Zephon the family of the Zephonites of Haggâ—â— the family of the Haggites of Shuni the family of the Shunites 16 Of Ozni the family of the Oznites of Eri the family of the Erites 17 Of Arod the family of the Arodâ—tes of Areli the family of the Arelites 18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbred of them fourty thousand and five hundred 19 ¶ * Gen. 38.2 c. and 46.12 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were of Shelah the family of the Shelanites of Pharez the family of the Pharezites of Zerah the family of the Zarhites 21 And the sons of Pharez were of Hesron the family of the Hesronites of Hamul the family of the Hamulites 22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbred of them threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred 23 ¶ Of the sons of Issachar after their families of Tola the family of the Tolaites of Pua the family of the Punites 24 Of Jashub the family of the Jashubites of Shimron the family of the Shimronites 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbred of them threescore and four thousand and three hundred 26 ¶ Of the sons of Zebulun after there families of Sered the family of the Sardites of Elon the family of the Elonites of Jahleel the family of the Jahleelites 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbred of them threescore thousand and five hundred 28 ¶ The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim 29 Of the sons of Manasseh of * Josh 17.1 Machir the family of the Machirites and Machir begat Gilead of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites 30 These are the sons of Gilead of Jeezer the family of the Jeezerites of Helek the family of the Helekites 31 And of Asriel the family of the Asrielites and of Shechem the family of the Shechemites 32 And of Shemida the family of the Shemidaites and of Hepher the family of the Hepherites 33 ¶ And * Chap. 27.1 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons but daughters and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah and Noah Hoglah Milcah and Tirzah 34 These are the families of Manasseh and those that were numbred of them fifty and two thousand and seven hundred 35 ¶ These are the sons of Ephraim after their families of Shuthelah the family of the Shuthalhites of Becher the family of the Bachrites of Tahan the family of the Tahanites 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah of Eran the family of the Eranites 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbred of them thirty and two thousand and five hundred These are the sons of Joseph after their families 38 ¶ The sons of Benjamin after their families of Bela the family of the Belaites of Ashbel the family of the Ashbelites of Ahiram the family of the Ahiramites 39 Of Shupham the family of the Shuphamites of Hupham the family of the Huphamites 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman of Ard the family of the Ardites and of Naaman the family of the Naamites 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families and they that were numbred of them were fourty and five thousand and six hundred 42 ¶ These are the sons of Dan after their families of Shuham the family of the Shuhamites These are the families of Dan after their families 43 All the families of the Shuhamites according to those that were numbred of them were threescore and four thousand and four hundred 44 ¶ Of the children of Asher after their families of Jimna the family of the Jimnites of Jesui the family of the Jesuites of Beriah the family of the Beriites 45 Of the sons of Beriah of Heber the family of the Heberites of Malchiel the family of the Malchielites 46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbred of them who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred 48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families of Jahzeel the family of the Jahzeelites of Guni the family of the Gunites 49 Of Jezer the family of the Jezerites of Shillem the family of the Shillemites 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families and they that were numbred of them were fourty and five thousand and four hundred 51 These were the numbred of the children of Israel six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty 52 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names 54 * Ch. 33.54 To many thou shalt †Heb. multiply his inheritance give the more inheritance and to few thou shalt †Heb. diminish his inheritance give the less inheritance to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbred of him 55 Notwithstanding the land shall be * Ch. 33.54 Josh 11.23 and 14.2 divided by lot according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit 56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between manâ— and few 57 ¶ * Ex. 6.16 17 18 19. And these are they that were numbred of the Levites after their families of Gershon the family of the Gershonites of Kohath the family of the Kohathites of Merari the family of the Merarites 58 These are the families of the Levites the family of the Libnites the family of the Hebronites the family of the Mahlites the family of the Mushites the family of the Korathites and Kohath begat Amram 59 And the name of Amrams wife was * Ex. 2 1 2. and 6.20 Jochebed the daughter of Levi whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister 60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab and Abihu Eleazar Ithamar 61 And * Lev.
bullock and two tenth-deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl for one ram 13 And a several tenth-deal of flour mingled with oyl for a meat-offering unto one lamb for a burnt-offering of a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD 14 And their drink-offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock and the third part of an hin unto a ram and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb this is the burnt-offering of every moneth throughout the moneth of the year 15 And one Kid of the goats for a sin-offering unto the LORD shall be offered beside the continual burnt-offering and his drink-offering 16 * Ex. 12.18 Levit. 23.5 And in the fourteenth day of the first moneth is the pass-over of the LORD 17 And in the fifteenth day of this moneth is the feast seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten 18 In the * Levit. 23.7 first day shall be an holy convocation ye shall do no manner of servile work therein 19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD two young bullocks and one ram and seven lambs of the first year they shall be unto you without blemish 20 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oyl three tenth-deals shall ye offer for a bullock and two tenth-deals for a ram 21 A several tenth-deal shalt thou offer for every lamb throughout the seven lambs 22 And one goat for a sin-offering to make an atonement for you 23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt-offering in the morning which is for a continual burnt-offering 24 After this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days the meat of the sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD it shall be offered beside the continual burnt-offering and his drink-offering 25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work 26 ¶ Also in the day of the first-fruits when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the LORD after your weeks be out ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work 27 But ye shall offer the burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD two young bullocks one ram seven lambs of the first year 28 And their meat-offering of flour mingled with oyl three tenth-deals unto one bullock two tenth-deals unto one ram 29 A several tenth-deal unto one lamb throughout the seven lambs 30 And one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you 31 Ye shall offer them besides the continual burnt-offering and his meat-offering they shall be unto you without blemish and their drink-offerings CHAP. XXIX 1 The offering at the feast of trumpets 7 at the day of afflicting their souls 13 and on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles ANd in the seventh moneth on the first day of the moneth ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work * Levit. 23.24 it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you 2 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto that LORD one young bullock one ram and seven lambs of the first year without blemish 3 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oyl three tenth-deals for a bullock and two tenth-deals for a ram 4 And one tenth-deal for one lamb throughout the seven lambs 5 And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to make an atonement for you 6 Beside the burnt-offering of the moneth and his meat-offering and the daily burnt-offering and his meat-offering and their drink-offerings according unto their manner for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD 7 ¶ And * 〈◊〉 16. â—◠〈◊〉 23.27 ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh moneth an holy convocation and ye shall afflict your souls ye shall not do any work therein 8 But ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour one young bullock one ram and seven lambs of the first year they shall be unto you without blemish 9 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oyl three tenth-deals to a bullock and two tenth-deals to one ram 10 A several tenth-deal for one lamb throughout the seven lambs 11 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering beside the sin-offering of atonement and the continual burnt-offering and the meat-offering of it and their drink-offerings 12 ¶ And on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days 13 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD thirteen young bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year they shall be without blemish 14 And their meat-offering shall be of flour mingled with oyl three tenth-deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks two tenth-deals to each ram of the two rams 15 And a several tenth-deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs 16 And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering beside the continual burnt-offering his meat-offering and his drink-offering 17 ¶ And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks two rams fourteen lambs of the first year without spot 18 And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner 19 And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering beside the continual burnt-offering and the meat-offering thereof their drink-offerings 20 ¶ And on the third day eleven bullocks two rams fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish 21 And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner 22 And one goat for a sin-offering beside the continual burnt-offering and his meat-offering and his drink-offering 23 ¶ And on the fourth day ten bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish 24 Their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner 25 And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering beside the continual burnt-offering his meat-offering and his drink-offering 26 ¶ And on the fifth day nine bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot 27 And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner 28 And one goat for a sin-offering beside the continual burnt-offering and his meat-offering and his drink-offering 29 ¶ And on the sixth day eight bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish 30 And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the
at Hazeroth 18 And they departed from Hazeroth and pitched in Rithmah 19 And they departed from Rithmah and pitched at Rimmon-parez 20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez and pitched in Libnah 21 And they removed from Libnah and pitched at Rissah 22 And they journeyed from Rissah and pitched in Kehelathah 23 And they went from Kehelathah and pitched in mount Shapher 24 And they removed from mount Shapher and encamped in Haradah 25 And they removed from Haradah and pitched in Makheloth 26 And they removed from Makheloth and encamped at Tahath 27 And they departed from Tahath and pitched at Tarah 28 And they removed from Tarah and pitched in Mithcah 29 And they went from Mithcah and pitched in Hashmonah 30 And they departed from Hashmonah and * Deut. 10.6 encamped at Moseroth 31 And they departed from Moseroth and pitched in Bene-jaakan 32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan and encamped at Horhagidgad 33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad and pitched in Jotbathah 34 And they removed from Jotbathah and encamped at Ebronah 35 And they deparâ—ed from Ebronah and encamped at Ezion-gaber 36 And they removed from Ezion-gaber and pitched in the * Ch. 20.1 wilderness of Zin which is Kadesh 37 And they removed from * Ch. 20.22 Kadesh and pitched in mount Hor in the edge of the land of Edom. 38 And * Ch. 20.25 Deut. 32.50 Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD and died there in the fourtieth year after the children of Israeâ— were come out of the land of Egypt in the first day of the fifth moneth 39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 40 And * Chap. 27.1 c. king Arad the Canaanite which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan heard of the coming of the children of Israel 41 And they departed from mount * Chap. 21.4 Hor and pitched in Zalmonah 42 And they departed from Zalmonah and pitched in Punon 43 And they departed from Punon and pitched in Oboth 44 And they departed from Oboth and pitched in ‖ Or heaps of Abarim Ije-abarim in the border of Moab 45 And they departed from Iim and pitched in Dibon-gad 46 And they removed from Dibon-gad and encamped in Almon-diblathaim 47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim and pitched in the mountains of Abarim before Nebo 48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho 49 And they pitched by Jordan from Beth-jesimoth even unto ‖ Or the plains of Shittim * Ch. 25.1 Abel shâ—tâ—im in the plains of Meab 50 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho saying 51 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them * Deut. â— 2 Josh 11.12 When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their pictures and destroy all their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein for I have given you the land to possess it 54 And * Ch. 26.53 ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families and to the mo ye shall †Heb. multiply his inheritance give the more inheritance and to the sewer ye shall †Heb. diminish his inheritance give the less inheritance every mans inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you then it shall come to pass that those which ye let remain of them shall be * Josh 23 13. Judg. 2.3 pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell 56 Moreover it shall come to pass that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them CHAP. XXXIV 1 The borders of the land 16 The names of the men which shall divide the land ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel and say unto them When ye come into the land of Canaan this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof 3 Then * Josh 15 1 your south-quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom and your south-border shall be the outmost coast of the salt-sea east-ward 4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea and shall go on to Hazar-addar and pass on to Azmon 5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt and the goings out of it shall be at the sea 6 And as for the western-border you shall even have the great sea for a border this shall be your west-border 7 And this shall be your north-border from the great sea you shall point out for you mount Hor. 8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad 9 ¶ And the border shall go on to Ziphron and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan this shall be your north-border 10 And ye shall point out your east-border from Hazar-enan to Shepham 11 And the coast shall go down to Shepham to Riblah on the east-side of Ain and the border shall descend and shall reach unto the †Heb shoulder side of the sea of Chinnereth east-ward 12 And the border shall go down to Jordan and the goings out of it shall be at the salt-sea This shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel saying This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes and to the half-tribe 14 * Ch. 32.33 Jos 14.2.5 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers have received their inheritance and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho east-ward toward the sun-rising 16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you * Josh 19 51. Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe to divide the land by inheritance 19 And the names of the men are these Of the tribe of Judah Caleb the son
thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt from whence ye came out where thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot as a garden of herbs 11 But the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven 12 A land which the LORD thy God †Heb. â—â—â—â—eth careth for the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year 13 ¶ And it shall come to pass if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season the first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oyl 15 And I will †Heb. give send grass in thy fields for thy cattel that thou mayest eat and be full 16 Take heed to your selves that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that the land yeeld not her fruit and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you 18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and * Chap. 6.8 hinde them for a signe upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes 19 * Ch. 4.10 6.7 And ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou risest up 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house and upon thy gates 21 That your days may be multiplyed and the days of your children in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth 22 ¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the LORD your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier then your selves 24 * Josh 1.3 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours from the wilderness and Lebanon from the river the river Euphrates even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon as he hath said unto you 26 ¶ Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse 27 †Chap. 28. â— A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day 28 And a * Chap. 28.15 curse if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods which ye have not known 29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it that thou shalt put * Chap. 27.12 13 Josh 8.33 the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the champian over against Gilgâ—l beside the plains of Moreh 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you and ye shall possess it and dwell therein 32 And ye shall observe * Chap. â— 32 to do all the statutes and judgements which I set before you this day CHAP. XII 1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed 5 The place of Gods service is to be kept 16 23 Bloud is forbidden 17 2â— 26 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place 19 The Levite is not to be forsaken 29 Idolatry is not to be enquired after THese are the statutes and judgements which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it all the days that ye live upon the earth 2 * Ch. 7.5 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall ‖ Or inherit possess served their gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree 3 And * Judg. 2.2 you shall †Heb. break down overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall * 1 Kin. 8 2â— 2 Chr. 7.12 choose out of all your tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither thou shalt come 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and heave-offerings of your hand and your vows and your free-will-offerings and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God and ye shall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto ye and your housholds wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you 10 But when ye go over Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about so that ye dwell in safety 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave-offering of your hand and all †Heb. the choice of your vows your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD 12 And ye shall rejoyce before the LORD your God ye and your sons and your daughters and your men-servants and your maid-servants and the Levite that is within your gates sorasmuch as * Ch. 10.9 he hath no part nor inheritance with you 13 Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy
and the cattel thereof with the edge of the sword 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof and shalt burn with fire the city and all the spoil thereof every whit for the LORD thy God and it shall be an heap for ever it shall not be built again 17 And there shall cleave nought of the ‖ Or devoted cursed thing to thine hand that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and shew thee mercy and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God CHAP. XIV 1 Gods children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning 3 What may and what may not be eaten 4 of beasts 9 of fishes 11 of fowls 21 That which dieth of it self may not be eaten 22 Tithes of divine service 23 Tithes and firstlings of rejoycing before the Lord. 28 The third years tithe of alms and charity YE are the children of the LORD your God * Lev. 19.28 ye shall not cut your selves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead 2 * Ch. 7.6 26.18 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations that are upon the earth 3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing 4 * Lev. 11.2 c. These are the beasts which ye shall eat the ox the sheep and the goat 5 The hart and the roe-buck and the fallow-deer and the wilde goat and the ‖ Or bison †Heb. aâ—shon pâ—grarg and the wilde ox and the chamois 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws and cheweth the cud amongst the beasts that ye shall eat 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the cloven hoof as the camel and the hare and the coney for they chew the cud but divide not the hoof therefore they are unclean unto you 8 And the swine because it divideth the hoof yet cheweth not the cud it is unclean unto you ye shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead carcase 9 ¶ * Lev. 11.9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters all that have fins and scales shall ye eat 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat it is unclean unto you 11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray 13 And the glede and the kite and the vulture after his kinde 14 And every raven after his kinde 15 And the owl and the night-hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kinde 16 The little owl and the great owl and the swan 17 And the pelican and the gier-eagle and the cormorant 18 And the stork and the heron after her kinde and the lapwing and the * Lev. 11.19 bat 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you they shall not be eaten 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of it self thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it or thou mayest sell it unto an alien for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God * Exod. 23. â—9 34.26 Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose to place his name there the tithe of thy corn of thy wine and of thine oyl and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always 24 And if the way be too long for thee so that thou art not able to carry it or if the place be too far from thee which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money and binde up the money in thine hand and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatsoever thy soul †Heb. asketh of thee desireth and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God and thou shalt rejoyce thou and thine houshold 27 And * Chap. 12.19 the Levite that is within thy gates thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee 28 ¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year and shall lay it up within thy gates 29 And the Levite because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy gates shall come and shall eat and be satâ—â—fied that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest CHAP. XV. The seventh year a year of release for the poor 7 It must be no let of lending or giving 12 An Hebrew servant 16 except he will not depart must in the seventh year go forth free and well furnished 19 All firstling males of the cattâ—l are to be sanctified unto the Lord. AT the end of * Lev. 25.2 4. every seven years thou shalt make a release 2 And this is the manner of the release Every †Heb. master of the lending of his hand creditour that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it he shall not exact it of his neighbour or of his brother because it is called the LORDS release 3 Of a foreiner thou mayest exact it again but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release 4 ‖ Or to the end that there be no poor among you Save when there shall be no poor among you for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it 5 Onely if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee as he promised thee and * Chap. 28.12 thou shalt lend unto many nations but thou shalt not borrow and thou shalt reign over many nations but they shall not reign over thee 7 ¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of
bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known and there shalt thou serve other gods word and stone 37 And thou shalt become * 1 Kin. 9.7 Jer. 24.9 and 25.9 an astonishment a proverb and a by-word among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee 38 * Mic. 6.15 Hag. 1.6 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them but shalt neither drink of the wine nor gather the â—rapes for the worms shall eat them 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts but thou shalt not anoint thy self with the oyl for thine olive shall cast his fruit 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters but †Heb. they shall not be thine thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into captivity 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust ‖ Or possess consume 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high and thou shalt come down very low 44 He shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him he shall be the head and thou shalt be the tail 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed because thou hearknedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee 46 And they shall be upon thee for a signe and for a wonder and upon thy seed for ever 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all thinâ—s and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have deâ—troyed thee 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not †Heb. bear understand 50 A nation †Heb. strong of face of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattel and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed which also shall not leave thee either corn wine or oyl or the increase of thy kine or flocks of thy sheep until he have destroyed thee 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down wherein thou trustedst throughout all the land and he shall besiege tâ—â—e in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee 53 And * Lev. 26.29 2 Kin. 6.29 Lam. 4.10 Bar. â— 3 thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own †Heb. bâ—lly body the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee 54 So that the man that is tender among you and very delicate his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leave 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat because he hath nothing lest him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates 56 The tender and delicate woman among you which would not adventure to for the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom and towards her son and towards her daughter 57 And towards her †Heb. after-birth young one that cometh out from between her feet and towards her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secrâ—tly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall diâ—â—â—ess thee in thy gates 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this 〈◊〉 that thou mayest fear this glorious and â—earful name THE LORD THY GOD 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed even great plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast afraid of and they shall cleave unto thee 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law them will the LORD †Heb. cause to ascend bring upon thee until thou be destroyed 62 And ye shall be left few in number whereas ye were * Chap. 10.22 as the stars of heaven for multitude because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God 63 And it shall come to pass that as the LORD rejoyced over you to do you good and to multiply you so the LORD will rejoyce over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt serve other gods which neither thou nor thy fathers have known even wood and stone 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of minde 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have none assurance of thy life 67 In the morning thou shalt say Would God it were even and at even thou shalt say Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships by the way whereof I spake unto thee Thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women and no man shall buy you CHAP. XXIX 2 Moses exhorteth them to obedience by the memory of the works they have seen 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himself in his wickedness 29 Secret things belong unto God THese are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them * Exod. 19.4 Ye have seen all that the
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines fourty years 2 ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites whose name was Manoah and his wife was barren and bare not 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman and said unto her Behold now thou art barren and bearest not but thou shalt conceive and bear a son 4 Now therefore beware I pray thee and * Numb 6 2 3. drink not wine nor strong drink and eat not any unclean thing 5 For lo thou shalt conceive and bear a son and * Numb 6.5 1 Sam. 1.11 no rasour shall come on his head for the childe shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines 6 ¶ Then the woman came and told her husband saying A man of God came unto me and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God very terrible but I asked him not whence he was neither told he me his name 7 But he said unto me Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son and now drink no wine nor strong drink neither eat any unclean thing for the childe shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death 8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the LORD and said O my Lord let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the childe that shall be born 9 And God hearkned to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field but Manoah her husband was not with her 10 And the woman made haste and ran and shewed her husband and said unto him Behold the man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said unto him Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman And he said I am 12 And Manoah said Now let thy words come to pass †Heb. What shall be the manner of the c. How shall we order the childe and ‖ Or what shall be do †Heb. what shall be his work how shall we do unto him 13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine neither let her drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing all that I commanded her let her observe 15 ¶ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD I pray thee let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid †Heb. before thee for thee 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Though thou detain me I will not eat of thy bread and it thou wilt offer a burnt-offering thou must offer it unto the LORD for Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD What is thy name that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him Why askest thou thus after my name seeing it is ‖ Or wonderful secret 19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat-offering and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD and the angel did wondrously and Manoah and his wife looked on 20 For it came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar and Manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their faces to the ground 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD 22 And Manoah said unto his wife * Exod. 33.20 Ch. 6.22 We shall surely die because we have seen God 23 But his wife said unto him If the LORD were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would as at this time have told us such things as these 24 ¶ And the woman bare a son and called his name Samson and the childe grew and the LORD blessed him 25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol CHAP. XIV 1 Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines 5 In his journey he killeth a lion 8 In a second journey be findeth honey in the carcase 10 Samsons marriate-feast 12 His riddle by his wife is made known 19 He spoileth thirty Philistines 20 His wife is married to another ANd Samson went down to Timnath and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines 2 And he came up and told his father and his mother and said I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines now therefore get her for me to wife 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines And Samson said unto his father Get her for me for †Heb. she is right in mine eyes she pleaseth me well 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD that he sought an occasion against the Philistines for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel 5 Then went Samson down and his father and his mother to Timnath and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold a young lion roared †Heb. in meeting him against him 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand but he told not his father or his mother what he had done 7 And he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased Samson well 8 ¶ And after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion 9 And he took thereof in his hands and went on eating and came to his father and mother and he gave them and they did eat but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion 10 ¶ So his father went down unto the woman and Samson made there a feast for so used the young men to do 11 And it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions to be with him 12 ¶ And Samson said unto them I will now put forth a riddle unto you if you can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast and finde it out then I will give
they cryed unto the children of Dan and they turned their faces and said unto Micah What aileth thee †Heb. that thou art gathered together that thou comest with such a company 24 And he said Ye have taken away my gods which I made and the priest and ye are come away and what have I more and what is this that ye say unto 〈◊〉 What a 〈◊〉 thee 25 And the children of Dan said unto him Let not thy voice be heard among â—s †Heb. bitter of soul 〈◊〉 aâ—â—ry fellows run upon thee and thou lose thy life with the 〈◊〉 of thy â—â—â—â—â—shold 26 And the children of Dan went their way and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him he turned and went back unto his house 27 And they 〈◊〉 the things which Micah had made and the priest which he had and came unto Laish unto a people that were at quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword and burnt the city with fire 28 And there was no deliverer because it was far from Zidon and they had no business with any man and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob and they built a city and dwelt therein 29 And they called the name of the * Josh 13.47 city Dan after the name of Dan their father who was born unto Israel howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first 30 ¶ And the children of Dan set up the graven image and Jonathan the son of Gershom the son of Manasseh he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land 31 And they set them up Micahs graven image which he made all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh CHAP. XIX 1 A Levite geoth to Beth-lehem to feteh home his wife 16 An old man entertaineth him at Gibeah 22 The Gibeathithes abuse his concubine to death 29 He divideth her into twelve pieces to send them to the twelve tribes ANd it came to pass in those days * Ch. 17.6 18.1 21.25 when there was no king in Israel that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim who took to him †Heb. a woman a concubine or a wife a concubine a concubine out of Beth-lehein-judah 2 And his concubine played the whore against him and went away from him unto her fathers house to Beth-lehem-judah and was there ‖ Or a year and four moneths †Heb. days four moneths four whole moneths 3 And her husband arofe and went after her to speak †Heb. to her heart friendly unto her and to bring her again having his servant with him and a couple of asses and she brought him into her fathers house and when the father of the damsel saw him he rejoyced to meet him 4 And his father in law the damsels father retained him and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodged there 5 And it came to pass on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning that he rose up to depart and the damsels father said unto his son in law †Heb. Strengthen Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and afterward go your way 6 And they sat down and did eat and drink both of them together for the damsels father had said unto the man Be content I pray thee and tarry all night and let thine heart be merry 7 And when the man rose up to depart his father in law urged him therefore he lodged there again 8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart and the damsels father said Comfort thine heart I pray thee And they tarried †Heb. till the day declined until after noon and they did eat both of them 9 And when the man rose up to depart he and his concubine and his servant his father in law the damsels father said unto him Behold now the day †Heb. is weak draweth towards evening I pray you tarry all night behold †Heb. it is the pitching time of the day the day groweth to an end lodge here that thine heart may be merry and to morrow get you early on your way that thou mayest go †Heb. to thy tent home 10 But the man would not tarry that night but he rose up and departed and came †Heb. to over against over against Jebus which is Jerusalem and there were with him two asses saddled his concubine also was with him 11 And when they were by Jebus the day was far spent and the servant said unto his master Come I pray thee and let us turn in unto this city of the Jebusites and lodge in it 12 And his master said unto him We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is not of the children of Israel we will pass over to Gibeah 13 And he said unto his servant Come and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in Gibeah or in Ramah 14 And they passed on and went their way and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah which belongeth to Benjamin 15 And they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge in Gibeah and when he went in he sat him down in a street of the city for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging 16 ¶ And behold there came an old man from his work out of the field at even which was also of mount Ephraim and he sojourned in Gibeah but the men of the place were Benjamites 17 And when he had lift up his eyes he saw a wayfaring man in the steeet of the city and the old man said Whither goest thousand whence cornest thou 18 And he said unto him We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim from thence am I and I went to Beth-lehem-judah but I am now going to the house of the LORD and there is no man that †Heb. gatherâ—â—â— receiveth me to house 19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses and there is bread and wine also for me and for thy hand-maid and for the young man which is with thy servants there is no want of any thing 20 And the old man said Peace be with thee howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me onely lodge not in the street 21 So he brought him into his house and gave provender unto the asses and they washed their feet and did eat and drink 22 ¶ Now as they were making their hearts merry behold the men of the city certain sons of Belial belet the house round about and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house the old man saying Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him 23 And * Gen 19.6 the man the master of the
house went out unto them and said unto them Nay my brethren nay I pray you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is come into mine house do not this folly 24 Behold here is my daughter a maiden and his concubine them I will bring out now and humble ye them and do with them what seemeth good unto you but unto this man do not †Heb. the matter of this folly so vile a thing 25 But the men would not hearken to him so the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning and when the day began to spring they let her go 26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the mans house where her lord was till it was light 27 And her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman his concubine was falâ— down at the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold 28 And he said unto her Up and let us be going but none answered Then the man took her up vpon an ass and the man rose up and gat him unto his place 29 ¶ And when he was come into his house he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel 30 And it was so that all that saw it said there was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day consider of it take advice and speak your minds CHAP. XX. 1 The Levite in a general assembly declareth his wrong 8 The decree of the assembly 12 The Benjamites being cited make head against the Israelites 18 The Israelites in two battels lose fourty thousand 26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites except six hundred THen all the children of Israel went out and the congregation was gathered together as one man from Dan even to Beer-sheba with the land of Gilead unto the LORD in Mizpeh 2 And the chief of all the people even of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword 3 Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh Then said the children of Israel Tell us how was this wickedness 4 And †Heb. the man the Levite the Levite the husband of the woman that was slain answered and said I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin I and my concubine to lodge 5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me and beset the house round about upon me by night and thought to have slain me and my concubine have they †Heb. humbled forced that she is dead 6 And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the countrey of the inheritance of Israel for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel 7 Behold ye are all children of Israel give here your advice and counsel 8 ¶ And all the people arose as one man saying We will not any of us go to his tent neither will we any of us turn into his house 9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah we will go up by lot against it 10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel and an hundred of a thousand and a thousand out of ten thousand to fetch victual for the people that they may do when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city †Heb. fellows knit together as one man 12 ¶ And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying What wickedness is this that is done among you 13 Now therefore deliver us the men the children of Belial which are in Gibeah that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah to go out to battel against the children of Israel 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbred at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of Gibeah which were numbred seven hundred chosen men 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men * Chap. 3.15 left-handed every one could sling stones at an hair breadth and not miss 17 And the men of Israel beside Benjamin were numbred four hundred thousand men that drew sword all these were men of war 18 ¶ And the children of Israel arose and went up to the house of God and asked counsel of God and said Which of us shall go up first to the battâ—l against the children of Benjamin And the LORD said Judah shall go up first 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah 20 And the men of Israel went out to battel against Benjamin and the men of Israel put themselves in aray to fight against them at Gibeah 21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men 22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves and set their battel again in aray in the place where they put themselves in aray the first day 23 And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even and asked counsel of the LORD saying Shall I go up again to battel against the children of Benjamin my brother And the LORD said Go up against him 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day 25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men all these drew the sword 26 ¶ Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of God and wept and sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until even and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD 27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days 28 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days saying Shall I yet again go out to battel against the children of Benjamin my brother or shall I cease And the LORD said Go up for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand 29 And Israel set liers in
shall no rasour come upon his head 12 And it came to pass as she †Heb. multiplied to pray continued praying before the LORD that Eli marked her mouth 13 Now Hannah she spake in her heart onely her lips moved but her voice was not heard therefore Eli thought she had been drunken 14 And Eli said unto her How long wilt thou be drunken put away thy wine from thee 15 And Hannah answered and said No my lord I am a woman †Heb. hard of spirit of a sorrowful spirit I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD 16 Count not thine hand-maid for a daughter of Belial for out of the abundance of my ‖ Or. meditation complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto 17 Then Eli answered and said Go in peace and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him 18 And she said Let thine hand-maid finde grace in thy sight So the woman went her way and did eat and her countenance was no mâ—â—e sad 19 ¶ And they rose up in the morning early and worshipped before the LORD and returned and came to their house to Ramah and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife and the LORD remembred her 20 Wherefore it came to pass †Heb. in â—â—â—olution of days when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived that she bare a son and called his name ‖ That is Asked of God Samuel saying Because I have asked him of the LORD 21 And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow 22 But Hannah went not up for she said unto her husband I will not go up until the childe be weaned and then I will bring him that he may appear before the LORD and there abide for ever 23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her Do what seemeth thee good tarry until thou have weaned him onely the LORD establish his word so the woman abode and gave her son suck until she weaned him 24 ¶ And when she had weaned him she took him up with her with three bullocks and one ephah of flour and a bottle of wine and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh and the childe was young 25 And they slew a bullock and brought the childe to Eli. 26 And she said O my lord as thy soul liveth my lord I am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the LORD 27 For this childe I prayed and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him 28 Therefore also I have ‖ Or. returned him whom I have obtained by petition to the LORD lent him to the LORD as long as he liveth ‖ Or he whom I have obtained by petition shall be returned he shall be lent to the LORD And he worshipped the LORD there CHAP. II. 1 Hannahs song in thankfulness 12 The sin of Eli's sons 18 Samuels ministery 20 By Eliâ—s blessing Hannah is more fruitful 22 Eli reproveth his sons 27 A prophesie against Eli's house ANd Hannah prayed and said My heart rejoyceth in the LORD mine horn is exalted in the LORD my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because I rejoyce in thy salvation 2 There is none holy as the LORD for there is none beside thee neither is there any rock like our God 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly let not †Heb. hard arrogancy come out of your mouth for the LORD is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed 4 The bowes of the mighty men are broken and they that stumbled are girt with strength 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread and they that were hungry ceased so that the barren hath born seven and she that hath many children is waxed feeble 6 * Deut. 32.39 Tob. 13.2 Wis 16.13 The LORD killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up 7 The LORD maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up 8 He * Psal 113.7 raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the begger from the dunghil to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the LORDS and he hath set the world upon them 9 He will keep the feet of his saints and the wicked shall be silent in darkness for by strength shall no man prevail 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces * Chap. 7.10 out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his anointed 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house and the childe did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest 12 ¶ Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial they knew not the LORD 13 And the priests custom with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice the priests servant came while the flesh was in seething with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand 14 And he strook it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself so they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither 15 Also before they burnt the fat the priests servant came and said to the man that sacrificed Give â—â—â—h to roâ—t for the priest for he will not have sodden flesh of thee but raw 16 And if any man said unto him Let them not fail to burn the fat †Heb. as on the day presently and then take as much as thy soul desireth then he would answer him Nay but thou shalt give it me now and if not I will take it by force 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD for men aâ—hoâ—red the offering of the LORD 18 ¶ But Samuel ministred before the LORD being a childe * Exod. 28.4 girded with a â—â—nen ephod 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice 20 ¶ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife and said The LORD give thee seeâ— of this woman â—â—r the ‖ Or. petition which he asked c. loan which is lent to the LORD And they went unto their own home 21 And the LORD visited Hannah so that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters and the childe Samuel grew before the LORD 22 ¶ Now Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with the women that †Heb. assembled by troups assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 23 And he said unto them Why do ye such things for ‖ Or I hear evil words of you I hear of your evil
before you and I am old and gray-headed and behold my sons are wâ—th you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day 3 Behold * Ecclus 46.19 here I am witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed whose ox have I taken or whose ass have I taken or whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed or of whose hand have I received any †Heb. ransom bribe ‖ Or that I should bide mine eyes at him to blinde mine eyes therewith and I will restore it you 4 And they said Thou hast not defrauded us nor oppressed us neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand 5 And he said unto them The LORD is witness against you and his anointed is witness this day that ye have not found ought it my hand And they answered He is witness 6 ¶ And Samuel said unto the people It is the LORD that ‖ Or made advanced Moses and Aaron and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt 7 Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the †Heb. righteousnesses or benefits righteous acts of the LORD which he did †Heb. with to you and to your fathers 8 * Gen. 46.5 6. When Jacob was come into Egypt and your fathers cried unto the LORD then the LORD * Ex. 4.16 sent Moses and Aaron which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place 9 And when they forgat the LORD their God * Judg. 4.2 he sold them into the hand of Sisera captain of the host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab and they fought against them 10 And they cried unto the LORD and said We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies we will serve thee 11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and * Judges â—â— 1 Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side and ye dwelled safe 12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you ye said unto me Nay but a king shall reign over us when the LORD your God was your King 13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired and behold the LORD hath set a king over you 14 If ye will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the †Heb. mouth commandment of the LORD then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you †Heb. be after continue following the LORD your God 15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD but rebel against the commandment of the LORD then shall the hand of the LORD be against you as it was against your fathers 16 ¶ Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes 17 Is it not wheat-harvest to day I will call unto the LORD and he shall send thunder and rain that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of the LORD in asking you a king 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel 19 And all the people said unto Samuel Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God that we die not for we have added unto all our sins this evil to ask us a king 20 ¶ And Samuel said unto the people Fear not ye have done all this wickedness yet turn not aside from following the LORD but serve the LORD with all your heart 21 And turn ye not aside for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver for they are vain 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great names sake because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people 23 Moreover as for me God forbid that I should sin against the LORD †Heb. from ceasing in ceasing to pray for you but I will teach you the good and the right way 24 Onely fear the LORD and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider ‖ Or what a treat thing c. how great things he hath done for you 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king CHAP. XIII 1 Sauls selected band 3 He calleth the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines whose garison Jonathan had smitten 5 The Philistines great host 6 The distress of the Israelites 8 Saul weary of staying for Samuel sacrificeth 11 Samuel reproveth him 17 The three spoiling hands of the Philistines 19 The policy of the Philistines to suffer no smith in Israel SAul †Heb. the son of one year in his reigning reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over Israel 2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent 3 And Jonathan smote the garison of the Philistines that was in ‖ Or 〈◊〉 hiâ—â— Geba and the Philistines heard of it and Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land saying Let the Hebrews hear 4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garison of the Philistines and that Israel also †Heb. did stink was had in abomination with the Philistines and the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal 5 ¶ And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsmen and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude and they came up and pitched in Michmash east-ward from Beth-aven 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait for the people were distressed then the people did hide themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits 7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead as for Saul he was yet in Gilgal and all the people †Heb. trembled after him followed him trembling 8 ¶ * Ch. 10.8 And he carried seven days according to the set time that Samuel had appointed but Samuel came not to Gilgal and the people were scattered from him 9 And Saul said Bring hither a burnt-offering to me and peace-offerings And he offered the burnt-offering 10 And it came to pass that assoon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering behold Samuel came and Saul went out to meet him that he might †Heb. bless him salute him 11 ¶ And Samuel said What hast
The LORD hath not chosen these 11 And Samuel said unto Jesse Are here all thy children And he said There remaineth yet the youngest and behold he keepeth the sheep And Samuel said unto Jesse * 2 Sam. 7.8 Psal 78.70 Send and fetch him for we will not sit †Heb. â—ound down till he come hither 12 And he sent and brought him in Now he was ruddy and withal †Heb. fair of eyes of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look to And the LORD said Arise anoint him for this is he 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oyl and anointed him in the midst of his brethren and the spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward so Samuel rose up and went to Ramah 14 ¶ But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the LORD ‖ Or terrified troubled him 15 And Sauls servants said unto him Behold now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee 16 Let our lord now command thy servants which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player on an harp and it shall come to pass when the evil spirit from God is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well 17 And Saul said unto his servants Provide me now a man that can play well and bring him to me 18 Then answered one of the servants and said Behold I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite that is cunning in playing and a mighty valiant man and a man of war and prudent in ‖ Or â—â—â—b matters and a comely person and the LORD is with him 19 ¶ Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said Send me David thy son which is with the sheep 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread and a bottle of wine and a kid and sent them by David his son unto Saul 21 And David came to Saul and stood before him and he loved him greatly and he became his armour-bearer 22 And Saul sent to Jesse saying Let David I pray thee stand before me for he hath found favour in my sight 23 And it came to pass when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul that David took an harp and played with his hand so Saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him CHAP. XVII 1 The armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready to battel 4 Goliath cometh proudly forth to challenge a combat 12 David sent by his father to visit his brethren taketh the challenge 28 Eliah chideth him 30 He is brought to Saul 32 He sheweth the reason of his confidence 38 Without armour armed by faith be slayeth the giant 55 Saul taketh notice of David NOw the Philistines gathered together their armies to battel and were gathered together at Shochoh which belongeth to Judah and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah in ‖ Or the coast of Dammim Ephes-dammim 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah and †Heb. ranged the battel set the battel in aray against the Philistines 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side and there was a valley between them 4 ¶ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath whose height was six cubits and a span 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head and he was †Heb. clothed armed with a coat of mail and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a ‖ Or â—orget target of brass between his shoulders 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weavers beam and his spears head weighed six hundred shekels of iron and one bearing a shield went before him 8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel and said unto them Why are ye come out to set your battel in aray am not I a Philistine and you servants to Saul choose you a man for you and let him come down to me 9 If he be able to fight with me and to kill me then will we be your servants but if I prevail against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve us 10 And the Philistine said I defie the armies of Israel this day give me a man that we may fight together 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine they were dismayed and greatly afraid 12 ¶ Now David was * Chap. 16.1 the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah whose name was Jesse and he had eight sons and the man went among men for an old man in the day of Saul 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battel and the names of his three sons that went to the battel were Eliab the first-born and next unto him Abinadab and the third Shammah 14 And David was the youngest and the three eldest followed Saul 15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his fathers sheep at Beth-lehem 16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself fourty days 17 And Jesse said unto David his son Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn and these ten loaves and run to the camp to thy brethren 18 And carry these ten †Heb cheeses of milk cheeses unto the †Heb. captain of a thousand captain of their thousand and look how thy brethren fare and take their pledge 19 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines 20 ¶ And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him and he came to the ‖ Or place of the carriage trench as the host was going forth to the ‖ Or battel-ray or place of fight fight and shouted for the battel 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battel in aray army against army 22 And David left †Heb. the vessels from upon him his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and came and †Heb. asked his brethren of peace saluted his brethren 23 And as he talked with them behold there came up the champion the Philistine of Gath Goliath by name out of the armies of the Philistines and spake according to the same words and David heard them 24 And all the men of Israel when they saw the man fled †Heb. from his face from him and were sore afraid 25 And the men of Israel said Have ye seen this man that is come up surely to defie Israel is he come up and it shall be that the man who killeth him the king will enrich him with great riches
LORD and set it in his place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had †pitched for it and David offered burnt-offerings and peace offerings before the LORD 18 And assoon as David had made an end of offering burnt-offerings and peace offerings * 1 Chr. 16.2 he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts 19 And he dealt among all the people even among the whole multiâ—â—de of Israel as well to the women as men to every one a cake of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine so all the people departed eâ—â—â—y one to his house 20 ¶ Then David returned to bless his houshold and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said How glorious was the king of Israel to day who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the hand-maids of his servants as one of the vain fellows ‖ Or openly shamelesly uncovereth himself 21 And David said unto Michal It was before the LORD which chose me before thy father and before all his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD over Israel therefore will I play before the LORD 22 And I will yet be more vile then thus and will be base in mine own sight and ‖ Or of the handmaidâ— of my servants of the maid servants which thou hast spoken of of them shall I be had in honour 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no childe until the day of her death CHAP. VII 1 Nathan first approving the purpose of David to build God an house 4 after by the word of God forbiadeth him 12 He promiseth him benefits and blessings in his seed 18 Davids prayer and thanksgiving ANd it came to pass * 1 Chr. 17.1 when the king sat in his house and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet See now I dwell in an house of cedar but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains 3 And Nathan said to the king Go do all that is in thine heart for the LORD is with thee 4 ¶ And it came to pass that night that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan saying 5 Go and tell †Heb. to my servant to David my servant David Thus saith the LORD Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of â—gypt even to this day but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with ‖ Chro. 1â— â— any of the judges any of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel saying Why build ye not me an house of cedar 8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David Thus saith the LORD of hosts * 1 Sam. 16.11 Ps 78.70 I took thee from the sheep-cote †Heb. from after from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel 9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest and have out off all thine enemies †Heb. from thy â—ace out of thy sight and have made thee a great name like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth 10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more as beforetime 11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house 12 ¶ And * 1 King 8.20 when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and I will establish his kingdom 13 * 1 Kin. 5.5 6.12 1 Chr. 22.10 He shall build an house for my name and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever 14 * Heb. 1.5 I will be his father and he shall be my son * Ps 89.30 31 32. if he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men 15 But my mercy shall not depart a way from him as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee thy throne shall be established for ever 17 According to all these words and according to all this vision so did Nathan speak unto David 18 ¶ Then went king David in and sat before the LORD and he said Who am I O Lord GOD and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lord GOD but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come and is this the †Heb. law manner of man O Lord GOD 20 And what can David say more unto thee for thou Lord GOD knowest thy servant 21 For thy words sake and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things to make thy servant know them 22 Wherefore thou art great O LORD God for there is none like thee neither is there any God beside thee according to all that we have heard with our ears 23 And * Deut. 4.7 what one nation in the earth is like thy people even like Israel whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things and terrible for thy land before thy people which thou redeemest to thee from Egypt from the nations and their gods 24 For thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever and thou LORD art become their God 25 And now O LORD God the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy serâ—ant and concerning his house establish it for ever and do as thou hast said 26 And let thy name be magnified for ever saying The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee 27 For thou O LORD of hosts God of Israel hast †Heb. opened the ear revealed to thy servant saying I will build thee an house therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee 28 And now O Lord GOD thou art that God and * John 17.17 thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant 29 Therefore now †Heb. be thou pleased let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may continue for ever before thee for thou O Lord GOD hast spoken
may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it 13 For because ye did it not at the first the LORD our God made a breach upon us for that we sought him not after the due order 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel 15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon as * Exod. 25.14 Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding by lifting up the voice with joy 17 So the Levites appointed * Chap. 6.33 Heman the son of Joel and of his brethren * Chap. 6.39 Asaph the son of Berechiah and of the sons of Merari their brethren * Chap. 6.44 Ethan the son of Kushaiah 18 And with them their brethren of the second degree Zechariah Ben and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel the porters 19 So the singers Heman Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass 20 And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni Eliah and Maaseiah Benaiah with psalteries on Alamoth 21 And Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azzaziah with harps ‖ Or on the eighth to oversee on the Sheminith to excel 22 And Chenaniah chief of the Levites ‖ Or was for the carriage be instructed about the carriage was for †Heb. lifting up song he instructed about the song because he was skilful 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark 24 And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer the priests did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark 25 ¶ So * 2 Sam. 6.12 13 c. David and the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy 26 And it came to pass when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all the Levites that bare the ark and the singers and Chenaniah the master of the ‖ Or carriage song with the singers David also had upon him an ephod of linen 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting and with sound of the cornet and with trumpets and with cymbals making a noise with psalteries and harps 29 ¶ And it came to pass as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing and she despised him in her heart CHAP. XVI 1 Davids festival sacrifice 4 He ordereth a quire to sine thanksgiving 7 The psalm of thanksgiving 37 He appointeth ministers porter priests and musicians to attend continually on the ark SO * 2 Sam. 6.17 they brought the ark of God and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it and they offered burnt-sacrifices and peace-offerings before God 2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offerings the peace-offerings he blessed the people in the name of the LORD 3 And he dealt to every one of Israel both man and woman to every one a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine 4 ¶ And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD and to record and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel 5 Asaph the chief and next to him Zechariah Jeiel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliah and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel †Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps with psalteries and with harps but Asaph made a sound with cymbals 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God 7 ¶ Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren 8 * Psal 105 1. Give thanks unto the LORD call upon his name make known his deeds among the people 9 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk you of all his wondrous works 10 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the LORD 11 Seek the LORD and his strength seek his face continually 12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 13 O ye seed of Israel his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen ones 14 He is the LORD our God his judgements are in all the earth 15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant the word which he commanded to a thousand generations 16 Even of the * Gen. 1â— 2 26. â— 28.13 covenant which he made with Abraham and of his oath unto Isaac 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant 18 Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan †Heb. the cord the lot of your inheritance 19 When ye were but †Heb. men of number few * Gen. 3â— 30 even a few and strangers in it 20 And when they went from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another people 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he * Gen. 12 17 20.3 reproved kings for their sakes 22 Saying * Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm 23 * Psal â—6 1 Sing unto the LORD all the earth shew forth from day to day his salvation 24 Declare his glory among the heathen his marvellous works among all nations 25 For great is the LORD and greatly to be praised he also is to be feared above all gods 26 For all the gods * Lev. 19.6 of the people are idols but the LORD made the heavens 27 Glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness are in his place 28 Give unto the LORD ye kindreds of the people give unto the LORD glory and strength 29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come before him worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness 30 Fear before him all the earth the world also shall be stable that it be not moved 31 Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoyce and let men say among the nations The LORD reigneth 32 Let the sea roar and the fulness
in his transgression have we prepared and sanctified and behold they are before the altar of the LORD 20 ¶ Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers of the city and went up to the house of the LORD 21 And they brought seven bullocks and seven rams and seven lambs and seven he-goats for a * Levit. â— 14 sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah and he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD 22 So they killed the bullocks and the priests received the bloud and * Levit. 8.14 1â— Heb. 9.21 sprinkled it on the altar likewise when they had killed the rams they sprinkied the bloud upon the altar they killed also the lambs and they sprinkled the bloud upon the altar 23 And they brought †Heb. near forth the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the congregation and they laid their * Levit. 4.15 hands upon them 24 And the priests killed them and they made reconciliation with their bloud upon the altar to make an atonement for all Israel for the king commanded that the burnt-offering and the sin-offering should be made for all Israel 25 * 1 Chron 16.4 and 25.6 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals with psalteries and with harps according to the commandment of David and of Gad the kings seer and Nathan the prophet for so was the commandment †Heb. by the hand of the LORD of the LORD †Heb. by the hand of by his prophets 26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David and the priests with the trumpets 27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar and †Heb. in the time when the burnt-offering began the song of the LORD beâ—an also with the trumpets and with the †Heb. hands of instruments instruments ordained by David king of Israel 28 And all the congregation worshipped and the †Heb. song singers sang and the trumpeters sounded and all this continued until the burnt-offering was finished 29 And when they had made an end of offering the king and all that were †Heb. sound present with him bowed themselves and worshipped 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer and they sang praises with gladness and they bowed their heads and worshipped 31 Then Hezekiah answered and said Now ye have ‖ Or filled your hand consecrated your selves unto the LORD come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings and as many as were of a free heart burnt-offerings 22 And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought was threescore and ten bulloâ—ks an hundred rams and two hundred lambs all these were for a burnt-offering to the LORD 33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep 34 But the priests were too sew so that they could not stay all the burnt-offerings wherefore their brethren the Levites †Heb. strengthned them did help them till the work was ended and until the other priests had sanctified themselves for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctifie themselves then the priests 35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink-offerings for every burnt-offering So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order 36 And Hezekiah rejoyced and all the people that God had prepared the people for the thing was done suddenly CHAP. XXX 1 Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemn pass-over on the second moneth for Judah and Israel 13 The assembly having destroyed the altars of idolatry keep the feast fourteen days 27 The priests and Levites bless the people ANd Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Eparaim and Manasseh that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the pass-over unto the LORD God of Israel 2 For the king had taken counsel and his princes and all the congregation in Jerusalem to keep the pass-over in the second * Num. 9.10 11. moneth 3 For they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem 4 And the thing †Heb. was right in the eyes of the king pleased the king and all the congregation 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel from Beer sheba even to Dan that they should come to keep the pass-over unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written 6 So the posts went with the letters †Heb. from the â—â—nd from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah and according to the commandment of the king saying Ye children of Israel turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham Isaac and Israel and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria 7 And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers who therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see 8 Now †Heb. â—arden not your necks be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers were but †Heb. give the hâ—nd yeeld your selves unto the LORD and enter into his sanctuary which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD your brethren and your children shall finde compassion before them that lead them captive so that they shall come again into this land for the LORD your God is * Exod. 34.6 gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return unto him 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the countrey of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them 11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD 13 ¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second moneth a very great congregation 14 And they arose and took away the * Chap. 28 24. altars that were in Jerusalem and all the altars for incense took they away and cast them into the brook Kidron 15 Then they killed the pass-over on the fourteenth day of the second moneth and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed and sanctified themselves and brought in the burnt-offerings into the house of the LORD 16 And they stood in †Heb. their standing their place after their manner according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests sprinkled the bloud which they received of the hand of the Levites 17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the pass-overs for every one that was not clean to sanctifie them unto the LORD 18 For a multitude of the people even many of Ephraim and Manasseh Issachar and Zebulun had not cleansed themselves yet did they eat the pass-over otherwise then it was written but Hezekiah prayed for them saying The good LORD pardon everyone 19 That prepareth his heart to seek God the LORD God of his fathers though be be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary 20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people 21 And the children of Israel that were †Heb. found present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day singing with †Heb. instruments of strength loud instruments unto the LORD 22 And Hezekiah spake †Heb. to the heart of all c. comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD and they did eat throughout the feast seven days offering peace offerings and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers 23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days and they kept other seven days with gladness 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah †Heb. lifted up of offered did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep and a great number of priests sanctified themselves 25 And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and the Levites and all the congregation that came out of Israel the strangers that came out of the land of Israel and that dwelt in Judah rejoyced 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem 27 ¶ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the peoâ—le and their voice was heard and the prayer came up to †Heb. the habitation of his holiness his holy dwelling-place even unto heaven CHAP. XXXI 1 The people is forward in destroying idolatry 2 Hezekiah or â—â—râ—th the courses of the priests and Levites and provideth for their work and maintenance 5 The peoples forwardness in offerings and tithes If Hezekiah appointeth officers to dispose of the tithes 20 The sincerity of Hezekiah NOw when all this was finished all Israel that were †Heb. found present went out to the cities of Judah and * 2 Kinâ— 18.4 brake the †Heb. statues images in pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin in Ephraim also and Manasseh †Heb. until to make an end until they had utterly destroyed them all Then all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession into their own cities 2 ¶ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses every man according to his service the priests and Levites for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD 3 He appointed also the kings portion of his substance for the burnt-offerings to wit for the morning and evening burnt-offerings and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the new-moons and for the set feasts as it is written in the * Num. 28. law of the LORD 4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD 5 ¶ And assoon as the commandment †Heb. brake forth came abroad the children of Israel brought in abundance the first-fruits of corn wine and oyl and ‖ Or. datâ—s honey and of all the increase of the field and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly 6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities of Judah they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep and the * Levit. 27.30 Deut. 14.28 tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God and said them †Heb. heaps heaps by heaps 7 In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heaps and finished them in the seventh moneth 8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps they blessed the LORD and his people Israel 9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD we have had enough to eat and have left plenty for the LORD hath blessed his people and that which is left is this great store 11 ¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare ‖ Or storehouses chambers in the house of the LORD and they prepared them 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicate things faithfully over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler and Shimei his brother was the next 13 And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachian and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers †Heb. at the hand under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother at the commandment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite the porter toward the east was over the free-will-offerings of God to distribute the oblations of the LORD and the most holy things 15 And †Heb. at his hand next him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshuah and Shemaiah Amariah and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests in their ‖ Or trust set office to give to their brethren by courses as well to the great as to the small 16 Beside their genealogy of males from three years old and upward even unto every one that entreth into the house of the LORD his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses 17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers and the Levites from twenty years old and upward in their charges by their courses 18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones their wives and their sons and their daughters through all the congregation for in their ‖ Or trust set office they sanctifie themselves in holiness 19 Also of the sons
where the treasures were †Cald. made to descend laid up in Babylon 2 And there was found at ‖ Or Echatana or in a coffer Achmetha in the palace that is in the province of the Medes a roll and therein was a record thus written 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem Let the house be builded the place where they offered sacrifices and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid the height thereof threescore cubits and the breadth thereof threescore cubits 4 With three rows of great stones and a row of new timber and let the expences be given out of the kings house 5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem and brought unto Babylon be restored and †Cald. go brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem every one to his place and place them in the house of God 6 Now therefore Tatnai governour beyond the river Shethar-boznai and †Cald. their societies your companions the Apharsachites which are beyond the river be ye far from thence 7 Let the work of this house of God alone let the governour of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place 8 Moreover †Cald. by me a decree is made I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God that of the kings goods even of the tribute beyond the river forthwith expences be given unto these men that they be not †Cald. made to cease hindred 9 And that which they have need of both young bullocks and rams and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven wheat salt wine and oyl according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem let it be given them day by day without fail 10 That they may offer sacrifices †Cald. â—f rest of sweet savours unto the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and of his sons 11 Also I have made a decree that whosoever shall alter this word let timber be pulled down from his house and being set up †Cald. let him be destroyed let him be hanged thereon and let his house be made a dunghil for this 12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem I Darius have made a decree let it be done with speed 13 ¶ Then Tatnai governour on this side the river Shethar-boznai and their companions according to that which Darius the king had sent so they did speedily 14 And the elders of the Jews builded and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo and they builded and finished it according to the commandment of the God of Israel and according to the †Cald. â—â—â—ree commandment of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia 15 And this house was finished on the third day of the moneth Adar which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king 16 ¶ And the children of Israel the priests and the Levites and the rest of †Cald. the sons of the transportation the children of the captivity kept the dedication of this house of God with joy 17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs and for a sin-offering for all Israel twelve he-goats according to the number of the tribes of Israel 18 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses for the service of God which is at Jerusalem †Cald. according to the writâ—nâ— * Râ—m 3.6 â— 9 as it is written in the book of Moles 19 And the children of the captivity kept the pass-over upon the fourteenth day of the first moneth 20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together all of them were pure and killed the pass-over for all the children of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves 21 And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the LORD God of Israel did eat 22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy for the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God the God of Israel CHAP. VII 1 Ezra goeth up to Jerusalem 11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra 27 Ezra blesseth God for his savour NOw after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia Ezra the son of Seraiah the son of Azariah the son of Hilkiah 2 The son of Shallum the son of Zadok the son of Ahitub 3 The son of Amariah the son of Azariah the son of Meraioth 4 The son of Zerahiah the son of Uzzi the son of Bukki 5 The son of Abishua the son of Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the chief priest 6 This Ezra went up from Babylon and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the LORD God of Israel had given and the king granted him all his request according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him 7 And there went up some of the children of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the porters and the Nethinims unto Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king 8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth moneth which was in the seventh year of the king 9 For upon the first day of the first moneth †Heb. was the foundation of the going up began he to go up from Babylon and on the first day of the fifth moneth came he to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him 10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgements 11 ¶ Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest the scribe even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD and of his statutes to Israel 12 Artaxerxes king of kings ‖ Or To Ezra the priest a perfect scribe of the law of the God of heaven peace c. Unto Ezra the priest a scribe of the law of the God of heaven perfect peace and at such a time 13 I make a decree that all they of the people of Israel and of his priests and Levites in my realm which are minded of their own
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media Persia 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus and great among the Jews and accepted of the multitude of his brethren seeking the wealth of his people and speaking peace to all his seed ¶ The book of JOB CHAP. I. 1 The holiness â—â—icheâ— and religious care of Job for his children 6 Satan appearing before God by calumâ—iation obtaineth leave to tempt Job 3Vnderstanding of the loss of his goods and children in his mourning â—e blesseth God THere was a man in the land of Uâ— whose name was Job and that man was * Ch. 2.3 perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil 2 And there were born unto him seven sons three daughters â— His ‖ Or â—attel substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand â—â—nielâ— and five hundred yoke of oâ—en and five hundred she-asses and a very great ‖ Or husbandry houshold so that this man was the greatest of all the †Heb. sons of the east men of the east 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them 5 And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned and * 1 Kin. 21.10 13. cursed God in their hearts Thus did Job †Heb. all the days continually 6 ¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD and †Heb. the adversary Satan came also †Heb. in the midst of them among them 7 And the LORD said unto Satan Whence comest thou Then Satan answered the LORD and said From * 1 Pet. 5.8 going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it 8 And the LORD said unto Satan †Heb. Hast thou â—â—t thy heart on Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil 9 Then Satan answered the LORD and said Doth Job fear God for nought 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his ‖ Or cattel substance is increased in the land 11 But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath †Heb. if he curse thee not to thy face and he will curse thee to thy face 12 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold all that he hath is in thy †Heb. hand power onely upon himself put not forth thine hand So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD 13 ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house 14 And there came a messenger unto Job and said The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away yea they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I onely am escapee alone to tell thee 16 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said ‖ Or a treat fire The fire of God is faln from heaven and hath burnt up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 17 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The Caldeans made out three bands and †Heb. rushed fell upon the camels and have carried them away yea and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 18 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house 19 And behold there came a great wind †Heb. from aside c. from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee 20 Then Job arose and rent his ‖ Or robe mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped 21 And said * Eccses 5.15 1 Tim. 6.7 Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away blessed be the name of the LORD 22 In all this Job sinned not nor ‖ Or attributed foller to God charged God foolishly CHAP. II. 1 Satan appearing again before God obtaineth further leave to tempt Job 7 He smiteth him with sore boyls 9 Job reproveth his wife moving him to curse God 11 His three friends condole with him in silence AGain there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD 2 And the LORD said unto Satan From whence comest thou And * Chap. 1.7 Satan answered the LORD and said From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it 3 And the LORD said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth * Chap. 1.1 8. a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil and still he heldeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him †Heb. to swallow him up to destroy him without cause 4 And Satan answered the LORD and said Skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life 5 But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face 6 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold he is in thine hand ‖ Or onely but save his life 7 ¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boyls from the sole of his foot unto his crown 8 And he took him a potsheard to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes 9 ¶ Then said his wife unto him Dost thou still retain thine integrity curse God and die 10 But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh what shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil In all this did not Job sin with his lips 11 ¶ Now when Jobs three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him they came every one from his own place Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him 12 And when they lift
7 Arise O LORD save me O my God for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 * Isa 43.11 Hos 13.4 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD thy blessing is upon thy people Selah PSAL. IV. 1 David prayeth for audience 2 He reproveth and exhorteth his enemies 6 Mans happiness is in Gods favour ¶ To the ‖ Or overseer chief musician upon Neginoth A psalm of David HEar me when I call O God of my righteousness thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress ‖ Or be gracious unto me have mercy upon me and hear my prayer 2 O ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shame how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing Selah 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself the LORD will hear when I call unto him 4 Stand in aw and sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still Selah 5 Offer * Psal 50.14 and 51.19 the sacrifices of righteousness put your trust in the LORD 6 There be many that say Who will shew us any good LORD lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart more then in the time that their corn and their wine increased 8 * Psal 3.5 I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou LORD onely makest me dwell in safety PSAL. V. 1 David prayeth and professeth his study in prayer 4 God favoureth not the wicked 7 David professing his faith prayeth unto God to guide him 1â— to destroy his enemies 11 and to preserve the godly ¶ To the chief musician upon Nehiloth A psalm of David GIve ear to my words O LORD consider my meditation 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry my King and my God for unto thee will I pray 3 * Psal 130.6 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O LORD in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee 5 The foolish shall not stand †Heb. before thine eyes in thy sight thou hatest all workers of iniquity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the LORD will abhor †Heb. the man of blouds and deceit the bloudy and deceitful man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward †Heb. the temple of thy holiness thy holy temple 8 Lead me O LORD in thy righteousness because of †Heb. thâ—se which observe me mine enemies make thy way straight before my face 9 For there is no ‖ Or stedfastness faithfulness †Heb. in his mouth that is in the mouth of any of them in their mouth their inward part is †Heb. wickednesses very wickedness * Rom. 3.13 their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 10 ‖ Or make them guilty Destroy thou them O God let them fall ‖ Or from their counsels by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou †Heb. thou coverest over or protectest them defendest them let them also that love thy name â—e joyful in thee 12 For thou LORD wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou †Heb. crown him compass him as with a shield PSAL. VI. 1 Davids complaint in his sickness 8 By faith be triumpheth over his enemies ¶ To the chief musician on Neginoth ‖ Or upon the eighth upon Sheminith A psalm of David O * Psal 38.1 LORD rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O LORD for I am weak O LORD heal me for my bones are vexed 3 my soul is also sore vexed but thou O LORD how long 4 Return O LORD deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies sake 5 * Psal 30.9 88.11 115.17 and 118.17 Isa 38.18 For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks 6 I am weary with my groaning ‖ Or every night all the night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with my tears 7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief it waxeth old because of all mine enemies 8 * Matth. 7.23 and 25.41 Luke 13. â—7 Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping 9 The LORD hath heard my supplication the LORD will receive my prayer 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed let them return and be ashamed suddenly PSAL. VII 1 David prayeth against the malice of his enemies professing his innocency 10 By faith he seeth his defence and the destruction of his enemies ¶ Shiggaion of David which he sang unto the LORD concerning the ‖ Or business words of Cush the Benjamite O LORD my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion renting it in pieces while there is †Heb. not a deliverer none to deliver 3 O LORD my God if I have done this if there be iniquity in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it yea let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay my honour in the dust Selah 6 Arise O LORD in thine anger lift up thy self because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgement that thou hast commanded 7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about for their sakes therefore return thou on high 8 The LORD shall judge the people judge me O LORD * Psal 18 2â— according to my righteousness and according to mine integrity that is in me 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just * 1 Sam. 16.7 1 Chr. 28.9 Psal 139.1 Jer. 11.20 and 17.10 and 20.12 for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins 10 †Heb. my buckler is upon God My defence is of God which saveth the upright in heart 11 ‖ Or God is a righteous judge God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day 12 If he turn not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bowe and made it ready 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecuters 14 * Job 15 3â— Isa 59.4 Jam.
that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare 2 ‖ Or when I shall take a set time When I shall receive the congregation I will judge up rightly 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved I bear up the pillars of it Selah 4 I said unto the fools Deal not foolishly and to the wicked Lift not up the horn 5 Lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiff neck 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the †Heb. desert south 7 But God is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them 9 But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted PSAL. LXXVI 1 A declaration of Gods majesty in the church 11 An exhortation to serve him reverently ¶ To the chief musician on Neginoth A psalm or song ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph IN Judah is God known his name is great in Israel 2 In Solem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling-place in Zion 3 There brake he the arrows of the bowe the shield and the sword and the battel Selah 4 Thou art more glorious and excellent then the mountains of prey 5 The stout-hearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands 6 At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause judgement to be heard from heaven the earth feared and was still 9 When God arose to judgement to save all the meek of the earth Selah 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain 11 Vow and pay unto the LORD your God let all that be round about him bring presents †Heb. to fear unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth PSAL. LXXVII 1 The psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence 10 The victory which he had consideration of Gods great and gracious works ¶ To the chief musician to Jeduthun A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph I Cried unto God with my voice even unto God with my voice and he gave ear unto me 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord †Heb. my hand my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted 3 I remembred God and was troubled I complained and my spirit was over-whelmed Selah 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so troubled that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the days of old the years of ancient times 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail †Heb. to ceâ—â—ration and generation for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Selah 10 And I said This is my infirmity but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High 11 I will remember the works of the LORD surely I will remember thy wonders of old 12 I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph Selah 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee they were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 †Heb. the clouds were poured forth with water The clouds poured out water the skies sent out a sound thine arrows also went abroad 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven the lightnings lightned the world the earth trembled and shook 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy foot-steps are not known 20 * Exod. 14.19 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron PSAL. LXXVIII 1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God 9 The story of Gods wrath against the incredulous and disobedient 67 The Israelites being rejected God chose Judah Zion and David ¶ ‖ Or A psalm for Asaph to give instruction Maschil of Asaph GIve ear O my people to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth 2 * Ps 49.4 Mat. 13.35 I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old 3 Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us 4 We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers * Deu. 4.9 6.7 that they should make them known to their children 6 That the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children 7 That they might sâ—t their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments 8 And might not be as their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation a generation †Heb. that prepared not their heart that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not stedfast with God 9 The children of Ephraim being armed and †Heb. throwing forth carrying bowes turned back in the day of battel 10 They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law 11 And forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan 13 * Exod. 14.21 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap 14 * Ex. 13.25 14.24 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire 15 * Ex. 17.6 Numb 20.11 Ps 105 4â— 1 Cor. 20. 4. He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths 16 He brought streams also out of the rock and caused
waters to run down like rivers 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most Hâ—gh in the wilderness 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust 19 * Numb 11.4 Yea they spake against God they said Can God †Heb. order furnish a table in the wilderness 20 * Ex. 17.6 Numb 20.11 Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams over-flowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people 21 Therefore the LORD heard this and was wroth so a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel 22 Because they beleeved not in God and trusted not in his salvation 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven 24 * Ex. â—6 14. Joh. 6.31 And had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven 25 ‖ Or every one did eat the bread of the mighty Man did eat angels food he sent them meat to the full 26 He caused an east-wind †Heb. to go to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south wind 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust and †Heb. fowl of wing feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations 29 So they did eat and were well filled for he gave them their own desire 30 They were not estranged from their lust but * Num. 11.33 while their meat was yet in their mouths 31 The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them and †Heb. made to bow smote down the ‖ Or young men chosen men of Israel 32 For all this they sinned still and beleeved not for his wondrous works 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God 35 And they remembred that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer 36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues 37 For their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath 39 For he remembred that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again 40 How oft did they ‖ Or rebel against him provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy One of Israel 42 They remembred not his hand nor the day when he delivered them ‖ Or from affliction from the enemy 43 How he had †Heb. set wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 44 * Ex. 7.20 And had turned their rivers into bloud and their flouds that they could not drink 45 * Ex. 8.24 He sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and * Exod. 8.6 frogs which destroyed them 46 * Ex. 10.13 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust 47 * Ex. 9.23 He †Heb. killed destroyed their vines with hail and their sycomore-trees with ‖ Or great hailstones frost 48 †Heb. he shut up He gave up their cattel also to the hail and their flocks to ‖ Or lightnings hot thunder bolts 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them 50 †Heb. He were bed a path He made a way to his anger he spared not their soul from death but gave ‖ Or their beasts to the murrain Exod. 9.3 their life over to the pestilence 52 * Exod. 12.29 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock 53 And he led them on safely so that they feared not but the sea * Ex. 14.27 and 15.10 †Heb. covered overwhelmed their enemies 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased 55 He cast out the heathen also before them and * Jol. 13.7 divided them an inheritance by line made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God and kept not his testimonies 57 But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers they were turned aside like a deceitful bowe 58 * Deut. 32.21 For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousie with their graven images 59 When God heard this he was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel 60 * 1 Sam. 4.11 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among men 61 And delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemies hand 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance 63 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not †Heb. prâ—dsed given to marriage 64 Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation 65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts he put them to a perpetual reproach 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim 68 But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Zion which he loved 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces like the earth which he hath †Heb. founded established for ever 70 * 1 Sam. 16.11 2 Sam. 7.8 He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds 71 †Heb. from after From following the ews great with young he brought him * 2 Sam. 5.2 1 Chr. 11.2 to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands PSAL. LXXIX 1 The psalmist complaineth of the desâ—lation of Jerusalem 8 He prayeth for deliverance 13 and promiseth thankfulness ¶ A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled they have laid Jerusalem on heaps 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth 3 Their bloud have they shed like water round
4 for his greatness 8 for his kingdom 11 for his general judgement O * 1 Chron. 16.23 Sing unto the LORD a new song sing unto the LORD all the earth 2 Sing unto the LORD bless his name shew forth his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people 4 For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols but the LORD made the heavens 6 Honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary 7 Give unto the LORD O ye kindreds of the people give unto the LORD glory and strength 8 Give unto the LORD the glory †Heb. of his name due unto his name bring an offering and come into his courts 9 O worship the LORD ‖ Or in the glorious sanctuary in the beauty of holiness fear before him all the earth 10 Say among the heathen that * Psal 93.1 and 97.1 the LORD reigneth the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce and let the earth be glad let the sea roar and the fulness thereof 12 Let the field be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce 13 Before the LORD for he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth PSAL. XCVII 1 The majesty of Gods kingdom 7 The church rejoyceth at Gods judgements upon idolateri 10 An exhortation to godliness and gladness THe LORD reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the †Heb. many or great isles multitude of isles be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him * Psal 89.14 righteousness and judgement are the ‖ Or establishment habitation of his throne 3 A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about 4 His lightnings enlightned the world the earth saw trembled 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens declare his righteousness and all the people see his glory 7 * Ex. 20.4 Levit. 26.1 Deut. 5.8 Confounded be all they that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols * Heb. 1.6 worship him all ye gods 8 Zion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O LORD 9 For thou LORD art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods 10 Ye that love the LORD * Ps 34.14 Amos 5.15 Rom. 12.9 hate evil he preserveth the souls of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked 11 Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart 12 Rejoyce in the LORD ye righteous and give thanks ‖ Or to the memorial at the remembrance of his holiness PSAL. XCVIII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the Jews 4 the Gentiles 7 and all the creatures to praise God ¶ A psalm O Sing unto the LORD a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory 2 * Isa 52.10 The LORD hath made known his salvation his righteousness hath he ‖ Or revealed openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 3 He hath remembred his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD all the earth make a loud noise and rejoyce and ring praise 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalm 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD the King 7 Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof the world and they that dwell therein 8 Let the flouds clap their hands let the hills be joyful together 9 Before the LORD * Ps 96.13 for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity PSAL. XCIX 1 The prophet setting forth the kingdom of God in Zion 5 exhorteth all by the example of forefathers to worship God at his holy hill THe LORD reigneth let the people tremble he sitteth between the cherubims let the earth †Heb. stagger be moved 2 The LORD is great in Zion and he is high above all people 3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name for it is holy 4 The kings strength also loveth judgement thou dost establish equity thou executest judgement and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the LORD our God and worship at his footstool for ‖ Or it is holy he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the LORD he answered them 7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimomes and the ordinance that he gave them 8 Thou answeredst them O LORD our God thou wast a God that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions 9 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy hill for the LORD our God is holy PSAL. C. 1 An exhortation to praise God cheerfully 3 for his greatness 4 and for his power ¶ A psalm of ‖ Or thankâ—giving praise MAke a joyful noise unto the LORD †Heb. all the earth all ye lands 2 Serve the LORD with gladness come before his presence with singing 3 Know ye that the LORD he is God it is he that hath made us ‖ Or and his we are and not we our selves we are his people the sheep of his pasture 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name 5 Fort the LORD is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth †Heb. to generation and generation to all generations PSAL. CI. David maketh a vow and profession of godliness ¶ A psalm of David I Will sing of mercy and judgement unto thee O LORD will I sing 2 I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way O when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within my house with a perfect heart 3 I will set no †Heb. thing of Belial wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me 4 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he that walketh ‖ Or perfect in the way in a perfect way he shall serve me 7 He that worketh
and there was not one feeble person among their tribes 38 * Ex. 12.33 Egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them 39 * Ex. 13.21 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night 40 * Ex. 16.12 c. The people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven 41 * Ex. â—â— 6 Nu. 20.11 1 Cor. 10.4 He opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like a river 42 For he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 43 And he brought forth his people with joy and â—is câ—osen with †Heb. singing gladness 44 * Deut. 6.10 11. Jos 3.17 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they inherited the labour of the people 45 That they might observe his statutes and keep his laws Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CVI. 1 The psalmist exhorteth to praise God 4 He prayeth for pardon of sin as God did with the fathers 7 The story of the peoples rebellion and Gods mercy 47 He concludeth with prayer and praise †Heb. Hallelujab PRaise ye the LORD O * Ps 107.1 118.1 136. â— give thanks unto the LORD for be is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD who can shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that keep judgement and he that doeth righteousness at all times 4 Remember me O LORD with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladness of thy nation that I may glory with thine inheritance 6 We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity we have done wickedly 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies * Exod. 14.11 12. but provoked him at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his names sake that he might make his mighty power to be known 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the depths as through the wilderness 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy 11 * Exod. 14.27 15.5 And the waters covered their enemies there was not one of them left 12 * Exod. 14.31 15.1 Then beleeved they his words they sang his praise 13 * Exod. 15.24 17.2 †Heb. they made haste they forgat They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel 14 * Numb 11.4 1 Cor. 10.6 But †Heb. lusted a lust lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert 15 * Numb 11.31 And he gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul 16 * Num. 16.1 c. They envied Moses also in the camp and Aaron the saint of the LORD 17 * Num. 16.31 Deut. 11.6 The earth opened and swallowed up Datham and covered the company of Abiram 18 * Num. 16.35 46. And a fire was kindled in their company the flame burnt up the wicked 19 * Exod. 32.4 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image 20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass 21 They forgat God their saviour which had done great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and terrible things by the Red sea 23 * Exod. 32.10 Therefore he said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they despised †Heb. a land of dâ—sirâ— the pleasant land they beleeved not his word 25 * Numb 14.2 But murmured in their tents and hearkned not unto the voice of the LORD 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness 27 †Heb. to make them fall To overthrow their seed also among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 * Numb 25.3 They joyned themselves also unto Baal-peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions and the plague brake in upon them 30 * Numb 25.7 Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgement and so the plague wâ—â— stayed 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore 32 * Numb 20.13 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 They did not destroy the nations * Deut. 7.2 concerning whom the LORD commanded them 35 * Judg. 1.21 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works 36 And they served their idols which were a snare unto them 37 Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils 38 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan and the land was polluted with bloud 39 Thus were they defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions 40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them ruled over them 42 Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand 43 * Judg. 2.16 Many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their counsel and were ‖ Or impoverished or weakned brought low for their iniquity 44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry 45 * Deut. 30.3 And he remembred for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives 47 Save us O LORD our God and gather us from among the heathen to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise 48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CVII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence 4 over travellers 10 over captives 17 over sick men 23 over sea-men 33 and in divers varieties of life O * Psal 106.1 118.1 136.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west from the north and †Heb. from the
a joyful mother of children Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXIV 1 An exhortation by the example of the dumb creatures to fear God in his church WHen * Ex. 16.3 Israel went out of Egypt the house of Jacob from a people of strange language 2 Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 * Ex. 14.21 The sea saw it and fled * Josh 3.13 Jordan was driven back 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs 5 What ailed thee O thou sea that thou fleddest thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like lambs 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob. 8 * Ex. 17.6 Num. 20.11 Which turned the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of waters PSAL. CXV 1 Because God is truly gloricus 4 and idols are vanity 9 he exhorteth to confidence in God 12 God is to be blessed for his blessings NOt unto us O LORD not unto us but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore should the heathen say * Psal 41.10 79.10 Where is now their God 3 * Psal 135.6 But our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased 4 * Psal 135.15 Their idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands 5 They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not 6 They have ears but they hear not noses have they but they sinell not 7 They have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 9 O Israel trust thou in the LORD he is their help and their shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in the LORD he is their help and their shield 11 Ye that fear the LORD trust in the LORD he is their help and their shield 12 The LORD hath been mindful of us he will bless us he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD both small †Heb. with and great 14 The LORD shall increase you more more you your children 15 You are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth 16 The heaven even the heavens are the LORDs but the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not the LORD neither any that go down into silence 18 * Dan. 2 20. But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore Praise the LORD PSAL. CXVI 1 The psalmist professeth his love and ducy to God for his deliverance 12 He studieth to be thankful I Love the LORD because he hath heard my voice and my supplications 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him †Heb. in my days as long as I live 3 * Psal 18.5 6. The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of hell †Heb. found me gat hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD O LORD I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Gracious is the LORD and righteous yea our God is merciful 6 The LORD preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me 7 Return unto thy rest O my soul for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living 10 * 2 Cor. 4.13 I beleeved therefore have I spoken I was greatly afflicted 11 I said in my haste * Rom. 3.4 All men are liars 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits towards me 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the LORD 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints 16 O LORD truly I am thy servant I am thy servant and the son of thy hand-maid thou hast loosed my bonds 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the LORD 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people 19 In the courts of the LORDs house in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXVII An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth O * Rom. 15.11 Praise the LORD all ye nations praise him all ye people 2 For his merciful kindness is great towards us and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXVIII 1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy 5 The psalmist by his experience sheweth how good it is to trust in God 19Vnder the type of the psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed O * 1 Chr. 16.8 Ps 106.1 107.1 136.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the LORD †Heb. out of distress in distress the LORD answered me and set me in a large place 6 * Ps 56.4 11. Heb. 13.6 The LORD is †Heb. for me on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me 7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me 8 It is better to trust in the LORD then to put confidence in man 9 * Ps 146.2 It is better to trust in the LORD then to put confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me about but in the name of the LORD will I †Heb. out them off destroy them 11 They compassed me about yea they compassed me about but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them 12 They compassed me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the LORD I will †Heb. out down destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the LORD helped me 14 * Ex. 15.2 Isa 12.2 The LORD is my strength and song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of rejoycing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly 17 I shall not die but live and declare the works of the LORD 18 The
set upon thy throne 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation 14 This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it 15 I will ‖ Or surely abundantly bless her provision I will satifie her poor with bread 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy 17 * Lu. 1 69 There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a ‖ Or candle lamp for mine anointed 18 His enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall-his crown flourish PSAL. CXXXIII The benefit of the communion of saints ¶ A song of degrees of David BEhold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell †Heb. even together together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his garments 3 As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion for there the LORD commanded the blessing even life for evermore PSAL. CXXXIV An exhortation to bless God ¶ A song of degrees BEhold bless ye the LORD all ye servants of the LORD which b◠night stand in the house of the LORD 2 Lift up your hands ‖ Or in holiness in the sanctuary and bless the LORD 3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion PSAL. CXXXV An exhortation to praise God for his mercy 5 for his power 8 for his judgements 15 The vanity of idols 19 An exhortation to bless God PRaise ye the LORD praise ye the name of the LORD praise him O ye servant of the LORD 2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD in the courts of the house of our God 3 Praise ye the LORD for the LORD is good sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant 4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure 5 For I know that the LORD is great that our Lord is above all gods 6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the seas and all deep places 7 * Jer. 10.13 He causeth the vapour to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings for the rain the bringeth the wind out of his treasuries 8 * Ex. 12.29 Who smote the first-born of Egypt †Heb. from man unto beast both of man and beast 9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants 10 * Num. 21.24 25 26 34 35. Who smote great nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan 12 * Jol. 12.7 And gave their land for an heritage an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O LORD endureth for ever and thy memorial O LORD †Heb. to generation and generation throughout all generations 14 For the LORD will judge his people and he will repent himself concerning his servants 15 * Ps 115.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. The idols of the heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands 16 They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not 17 They have ears but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths 18 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 19 Bless the LORD O house of Israel bless the LORD O house of Aaron 20 Bless the LORD O house of Levi ye that scar the LORD bless the LORD 21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion which dwelleth at Jerusalem Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXXXVI An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies O * Ps 106.1 107.1 118.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy endureth for ever 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever 4 To him who alone doeth great wonders for his mercy endureth for ever 5 * Gen. 1.1 To him that by wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever 6 * Gen. 1.9 Jer. 10.12 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters for his mercy endureth for ever 7 * Gen. 1.14 To him that made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun †Heb. for the rulings by day to rule by day for his mercy endureth for ever 9 The moon stars to rule by night for his mercy endureth for ever 10 * Ex. 12.29 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born for his mercy endureth for ever 11 * Ex. 13.17 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for ever 12 With a strong hand and with a stretched out arm for his mercy endureth for ever 13 * Ex. 14.21 22. To him which divided the Red sea into parts for his mercy endureth for ever 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for ever 15 * Ex. 14.28 But †Heb. shaked off overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for ever 16 * Ex. 15.22 To him which led his people through the wilderness for his mercy endureth for ever 17 To him which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for ever 18 * Deu. 29.7 Ps 135.10 12. And slew famous kings for his mercy endureth for ever 19 * Nu. 21.23 Sihon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for ever 20 * Nu. 21.33 And Og the king of Bashan for his mercy endureth for ever 21 * Jos 12.7 And gave their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for ever 22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant for his mercy endureth for ever 23 Who remembred us in our low estate for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever 25 Who giveth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for ever 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven for his mercy endureth for ever PSAL. CXXXVII The constancy of the Jews in captivity 7 The prophet curseth Edom and Babel BY the rivers of Babylon there we sat down yea we wept when we remembred Zion 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us †Heb. the words of a song a song and they that †Heb. laid us on heaps wasted us required of us mirth saying Sing us one of the songs of Zion
is pleasant unto thy soul 11 Discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man from the man that speaketh froward things 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness 14 Who rejoyce to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked 15 Whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman * Chap. â— 3 and 7.5 even from the stranger which flattereth with her words 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her God 18 For her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead 19 None that go unto her return again neither take they hold of the paths of life 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous 21 * Ps 37. â—9 For the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it 22 * Job 18.17 Psal 104.35 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressours shall be ‖ Or pluckt up rooted out of it CHAP. III. 1 An exhortation to obedience 5 to faith 7 to mortification 9 to devotion 11 to patience 13 The happy gain of wisdâ—m 19 The power 21 and the benefits of wisdom 27 An exhortation to charitableness 30 peaceableness 31 and contentedness 33 The cursed state of the wicked My son forget not my law * Deut. 8.1 30.16 but let thine heart keep my commandments 2 For length of days and †Heb. â—ewâ— of life long life and peace shall they add to thee 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee * Ex. 13.9 Deut. 6.8 binde them about thy neck write them upon the table of thine heart 4 * Psal 111.10 So shalt thou sinde favour and ‖ Or good sâ—â—cess good understanding in the sight of God and man 5 ¶ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding 6 * 1 Chr. 28.9 In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths 7 ¶ * Rom. 12.16 Be not wise in thine own eyes fear the LORD and depart from evil 8 It shall be †Heb. medicine health to thy navel and †Heb. aâ—terine or moisâ—â—ng marrow to thy bones 9 * Exed 23.10 and 34.26 Deut. 26.2 c. Mal. 3.10 c. Luke 14.13 Honour the LORD with thy substance and with the first-fruits of all thine increase 10 * Deut. 28.8 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine 11 ¶ * Job 5.17 Hebr. 12.5 Revel 3.39 My son despise not the chastning of the LORD neither be weary of his correction 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth 13 ¶ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and †Heb. the man that craweth out understanding the man that getteth understanding 14 * Job â—3 15 c. Pal. 19.10 Chap. 8.11 10. 16.16 For the merchandise of it is better then the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof them fine gold 15 She is more precious then rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her 16 Length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her and happy is every one that retaineth her 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth by understanding hath he ‖ Or pâ—â—sared established the heavens 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew 21 ¶ My son let not them depart from thine eyes keep sound wisdom and discretion 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck 23 * Ps 37.24 91.11 12. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely and thy foot foot shall not stumble 24 When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid yea thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh 26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken 27 ¶ Withhold not good from †Heb. the owners thereof them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it 28 Say not unto thy neighbour Go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee 29 ‖ Or practise no evil Devise not evil against thy neighbour seeing he dwelleth securely by thee 30 ¶ Strive not with a man without cause if he have done thee no harm 31 ¶ * Ps 37.1 Envy thou not †Heb. a man of violence the oppressour and choose none of his ways 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD * Ps 25.14 but his secret is with the righteous 33 ¶ * Mal. 2.2 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked but he blesseth the habitation of the just 34 ¶ * Jam. 4.6.1 Pet. 5.5 Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly 35 The wise shall inherit glory but shame †Heb. tâ—alteth the fools shall be the promotion of fools CHAP. IV. 1 Solomon to perswade obedience 3 sheweth what instruction he had of his parents 5 To study wisdom 14 and to shun the path of the wicked 20 He exhorteth to faith 23 and sanctification HEar ye children the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding 2 For I give you good doctrine forsake you not my law 3 For I was my fathers son * 1 Chr. 29.1 tender and onely beloved in the sight of my mother 4 * 1 Chr. 28.9 He taught me also and said unto me Let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live 5 Get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth 6 Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee 7 Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding 8 Exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her 9 She shall give to thine head * Chap. 1.9 an ornament of grace ‖ Or she shall compass thee with a crown of glory a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee 10 Hear O my son and receive my sayings and the years of thy life shall be many 11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom I have led thee in right paths 12 When thou goest thy steps shall not be straitned * Psal 91.11 12. and when thou runnest thou shalt
Ch. 59.3 †Heb. blouds bloud 16 ¶ Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes * 1 Pet. 3.11 cease to do evil 17 Learn to do well seek judgement ‖ Or rightâ—â—â— relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow 18 Come now and let us reason together saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool 19 If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land 20 But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it 21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now murderers 22 Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water 23 Thy princes are rebellious and companions of theeves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they * Jer. 5.28 Zech. 7 1â— judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them 24 Therefore saith the Lord the LORD of hosts the mighty One of Israel Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies 25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee and †Heb. according to pureness purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellours as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousnes the faithful city 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgement and ‖ Or they that return of her her converts with righteousness 28 ¶ And the * Job 31.3 Ps 1.6 5.6 73.27 92.9 and 104.35 †Heb. breaking destruction of the transgressours and of the sinners shall be together and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden that hath no water 31 And the strong shall be as tow ‖ Or and his work and the maker of it as a spark and they shall both burn together and none shall quench them CHAP. II. 1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christs kingdom â— Wickedness is the cause of Gods forsaking 10 He exhorteth to fear because of the powerful effect of Gods majesty THe word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem 2 And * Mic. 4 â— c. it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the LORD house shall be ‖ Or prepared established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it 3 And many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem 4 And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares and their spears into ‖ Or sithes pruning-hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more 5 O house of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the LORD 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob because they be replenished ‖ Or more then the east from the east and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines and they ‖ Or abound with the children c. please themselves in the children of strangers 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold neither is there any end of their treasures their land is also full of horses neither is there any end of their chariots 8 Their land also is full of idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made 9 And the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself therefore forgive them not 10 ¶ Enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty 11 The * Chap. 5.15 lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of Bashan 14 And upon all the high mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up 15 And upon every high towre and upon every senced wall 16 And upon all the ships of Tarthish and upâ—n all †Heb. pictures of dâ—sire pleasant pictures 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day 18 And ‖ Or the idols shall utterly pass away the idols he shall utterly abolish 19 And they shall go into the * Hoâ— 10.8 Lu. 23.30 Rev. 6.16 9.6 holes of the rocks and into the caves of †Heb. the â—ust the earth for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth 20 In that day a man shall cast †Heb. the idols of his silvâ—r c. his idols of silver and his idols of gold ‖ Or which they made for him which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth 22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of CHAP. III. 1 The great confusion which cometh by sin 9 The impudeney of the people 12 The oppression and covetousâ—â—es of the culers 16 The judgements which shall be joy the pride of the women FOr behold the LORD the LORD of hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water 2 The mighty man and the man of war the judge and the prophet and the prudent and the ancient 3 The captain of fifty and †Heb. amâ—â— emiâ—eâ—t in counterance the honourable man and the counsellour and the cunning artificer and ‖ Or skilful of speâ—ck the eloquent oratour 4 And I will give * â—â—â—â—es 1â— 16 children to be their
the Ethiopians captives young and old naked and bare-foot even with their buttocks uncovered to the †Heb. nakedness shame of Egypt 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and of Egypt their glory 6 And the inhabitant of this ‖ Or countrey isle shall say in that day Behold such is our expectation whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria and how shall we escape CHAP. XXI 1 The prophet bewailing the captivity of his people seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians 11 Edom scorning the prophet is moved to repentance 13 The set time of Arabia's calamity THe burden of the desert of the sea As whirlwinds in the south pass through so it cometh from the desert from a terrible land 2 A †Heb. hard grievous vision is declared unto me the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously and the spoiler spoileth go up O Elam besiege O Media all the sighing thereof have I made to cease 3 Therefore are my loyns filled with pain pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travaileth I was bowed down at the hearing of it I was dismayed at the seeing of it 4 ‖ Or My minde wandred My heart panted fearfulness affrighted me the night of my pleasure hath he †Heb. put turned into fear unto me 5 Prepare the table watch in the watch towre eat drink arise ye princes and anoint the shield 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Go set a watchman let him declare what he seeth 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of hors-men a chariot of asses and a chariot of camels and he hearkned diligently with much heed 8 And ‖ Or cried as a lion he cried A lion my lord I stand continually upon the * Hab. 2.1 watch-towre in the day-time and I am set in my ward ‖ Or every niâ—ht whole nights 9 And behold here cometh a chariot of men with a couple of hors-men and he answered and said * Jer. 51.8 Rev. 14 8. 18.2 Babylon is faln is faln and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground 10 O my threshing and the †Heb. son corn of my floor that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts the God of Israel have I declared unto you 11 ¶ The burden of Dumah He calleth to me out of Seir Watchman what of the night watchman what of the night 12 The watchman said The morning cometh and also the night if ye will enquire enquire ye return come 13 ¶ The burden upon Arabia In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge O ye travelling companies of Dedanim 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema ‖ Or bring â—e brought water to him that was thirsty they prevented with their bread him that fled 15 For they fled ‖ Or for fear †Heb. from the face from the swords from the drawn sword and from the bent bowe and from the grievousness of war 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Within a year according to the years of an hireling and all the glory of Kedar shall fail 17 And the residue of the number of †Heb. bowes archers the mighty men of the children of Kedar shall be diminished for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it CHAP. XXII 1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jury by the Persians 8 He reproveth their humane wisdom and worldly joy 15 He prophesieth Shebna's deprivation 20 and Eliakim prefiguring the kingdom of Christ his substitution THe burden of the valley of vision What aileth thee now that thou art wholly gone up to the hous-tops 2 Thou that art full of stirs a tumultuous city a joyous city thy slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battel 3 All thy rulers are fled together they are bound †Heb. of the boâ—e by the archers all that are found in thee are bound together which have fled from far 4 Therefore said I * Jer. 4.19 and 9.1 Look away from me †Heb. I will be bitter in weeping I will weep bitterly labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people 5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains 6 And Alam bare the quiver with chariots of men and hors-men and Kir †Heb. made naked uncovered the shield 7 And it shall come to pass that †Heb. the choice of thy valleys thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots and the hors-men shall set themselves in aray ‖ Or towards at the gate 8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool 10 And ye have numbred the houses of Jerusalem and the houses have ye broken down to fortifie the wall 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth 13 And behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine * Ch. 5â— 12 Wild. 2.6 let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die saith the Lord GOD of hosts 15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts Go get thee unto this treasurer even unto Shebna which is over the house and say 16 What hast thou here and whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here ‖ Or O he as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock 17 Behold ‖ Or the LORD who covered thee with an excellent covering and clothed thee â—oâ—ceously shall surely c. vers 18. the LORD will carry thee away with †Heb. the captivity of a man a mighty captivity and will surely cover thee 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a †Heb. large of spaceâ— large countrey there shalt thou die and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lords house 19 And I will drive thee from thy station and from thy state shall he pull thee down 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of
of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake 19 The earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall †Heb. visit upon punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon the earth 22 And they shall be gathered together †Heb. with the gathering of prisoners as prisoners are gathered in the ‖ Or dungeon pit and shall be shut up in the prison and after many days shall they be ‖ Or found wanting visited 23 Then the * Ch. 13.10 Ezek. 32.7 Joel 2.31 and 3.15 moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and ‖ Or there shall be glory before his ancients before his ancients gloriously CHAP. XXV 1 The prophet praiseth God for his judgements 6 for his saving benefits 9 and for his victorious salvation O LORD thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap of a defenced city a ruine a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low 6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined 7 And he will †Heb. swallow up destroy in this mountain the face of the covering †Heb. covered cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations 8 He will * 1 Cor. 15.54 swallow up death in victory and the Lord GOD will * Rev. 7.17 and 21.4 wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the LORD hath spoken it 9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the LORD we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest and Moab shall be ‖ Or threshed troden down under him even as straw is ‖ Or threshed in Madmenah troden down for the dunghil 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the sports of their hands 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down lay low and bring to the ground even to the dust CHAP. XXVI 1 A song inciting to confidence in God 5 for his judgements 12 and for his favour to his people 20 An exhortation to wait on God IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah We have a strong câ—tâ—â— salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks 2 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the †Heb. truths truth may enter in 3 Thou wilt keep him in †Heb. peace peace perfect peace whose ‖ Or thought or imagination minde is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever for in the LORD JEHOVAH is †Heb. the rock of ages everlasting strength 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust 6 The foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy 7 The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just 8 Yea in the way of thy judgements O LORD have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD 11 LORD when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy ‖ Or towards thy people at the people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them 12 ¶ LORD thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works ‖ Or for us in us 13 O LORD our God other lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee onely will we make mention of thy name 14 They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish 15 Thou hast increased the nation O LORD thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth 16 LORD in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a †Heb. secret speech prayer when thy chastening was upon them 17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight O LORD 18 We have been with childe we have been in pain we have as it were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world â—aln 19 Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead 20 ¶ Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were
for a little moment until the indignation be overpast 21 For behold the LORD * Mic. 1.3 cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth also shall disclose her †Heb. â—â—ouâ—s bloud and shall no more cover her slain CHAP. XXVII 1 The care of God over his vineyard 7 His chastisements differ from judgements 12 The Church of Jews and Gentiles IN that day the LORD with his fore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the ‖ Or crossing like a bar piercing serpent even leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea 2 In that day sing ye unto her A vineyard of red wine 3 I the LORD do keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day 4 Fury is not in me who would set the briers and thorns against me in battel I would ‖ Or march against go through them I would burn them together 5 Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me and he shall make peace with me 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit 7 ¶ Hath he smitten him †Heb. according to the sâ—oâ—e of those as he smote those that smote him or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him 8 In measure ‖ Or. when thou sendest it forth when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it ‖ Or when he removeth it he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east-wind 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder the groves and ‖ Or 〈◊〉 images images shall not stand up 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate and the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness there shall the calf feed and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof 11 When the boughs thereof are withered they shall be broken off the women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall beat off from the chanel of the river unto the stream of Egypt and ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel 13 And it shall come to pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out casts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem CHAP. XXVIII 1 The prophet threatneth Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness 5 The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ 7 He rebuketh their errour 9 their untowardness to learn 14 and their security 16 Christ the sure foundationis promised 18 Their security shall be tried 23 They are incited to the consideration of Gods discreet providence WO to the crown of pride to the drunkards of Ephraim whose glorious beauty is a sading stower which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are †Heb. broken overcome with wine 2 Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm as a floud of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hand 3 The crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim shall be troden †Heb. with feet under feet 4 And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower and as the hasty fruit before the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth it while it is yet in his hand he †Heb. swalloweth eateth it up 5 ¶ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people 6 And for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement and for strength to them that turn the battel to the gate 7 ¶ But they also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgement 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no place clean 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to understand †Heb. the bearing doctrine them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts 10 For precept ‖ Or hath been must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little 11 For with †Heb. stammerings of lips * 1 Cor. 14.21 stammering lips and another tongue ‖ Or he hath spoken will he speak to this people 12 To whom he said This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken 14 ¶ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD ye scornful men that rule this people which is in Jerusalem 15 Because ye have said We have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement when the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come unto us for we have made lies our refuge and under falihood have we hid our selves 16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation * Psal 118.22 Matth. 21.42 Act. 4.11 Rom. 9.33 10.11 1 Pet 2.6 7 8. a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste 17 Judgement also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place 18 ¶ And you covenant with death shall be disanulled and your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall pass through 〈◊〉 ye shall be †Heb. a treaâ—ing down to it troden down by it 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for morning by morning shall it pass over by day and by night and it shall be a vexation onely ‖ Or when be shall make you to understand doctrine to understand the
is my law * Matth. 10.28 fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wool but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation 9 ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arm of the LORD awake as in the ancient days in the generations of old Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the * Psal 74.13 14. Ezek. 29.3 dragon 10 Art thou not it which hath * Exod. 14.21 dried the sea the waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over 11 Therefore * Chap. 35.10 the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their head they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning shall flee away 12 I even I am he that comforteth you who are thou that thou shouldest be afraid * Psal 118.6 of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made * Ch. 40.6 1 Pet. 1.24 as grass 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressour as if he ‖ Or made himself ready were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressour 14 The captive exile hastneth that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail 15 But I am the LORD thy God that * Jer. 31.35 divided the sea whose waves roared the LORD of hosts is his name 16 And I have put my words * Chap. 49.2 3. in thy mouth and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion Thou are my people 17 ¶ * Chap. 52.1 Awake awake stand up O Jerusalem which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up 19 * Chap. 47.9 These two things †Heb. bapned are come unto thee who shall be sorry for thee desolation and †Heb. breaking destruction and the famine and the sword by whom shall I comfort thee 20 Thy sons have fainted they lie at the head of all the streets as a wilde bull in a net they are full of the fury of the LORD the rebuke of thy God 21 ¶ Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul Bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over CHAP. LII 1 Christ perswadeth the church to beleeve his free redemption 7 to receive the ministers thereof 9 to joy in the power thereof 11 and to free themselves from bondage 13 Christs kingdom shall be exalted * Chap. 5.17 AWake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy beautiful garments O Jerusalem the holy city for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean 2 Shake thy self from the dust arise and sit down O Jerusalem loose thy self from the hands of thy neck O captive daughter of Zion 3 For thus saith the LORD Ye have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD My people went down aforetime into * Gen. 45.6 Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause 5 Now therefore what have I here saith the LORD that my people is taken away for nought they that rule over them make them to howl saith the LORD and my name continually every day is * Ezek. 36.20 23. Rom. 2.24 blasphemed 6 Therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold it is I. 7 ¶ * Nah. 1.15 Ro. 10.15 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion Thy God reigneth 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall bring again Zion 9 ¶ Break forth into joy sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people he hath redeemed Jerusalem 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and * Ps 98.2 Lu. 3.6 all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God 11 ¶ * 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 Depart ye depart ye go ye out from thence touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her be ye clean that bear the vessels of the LORD 12 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight for the LORD will go before you and the God of Israel will †Heb. gather you up be your rereward 13 ¶ Behold my servant shall ‖ Or prosper deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high 14 As many were astonied at thee his * Ch. 53.3 visage was so marred more then any man and his form more then the son of men 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations the kings shall shut their mouths at him for that * Rom. 15.21 which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider CHAP. LIII 1 The prophet complaining of incredulity excuseth the scandal of the cross 4 by the benefit of his passion 10 and the good success thereof * Joh. 12.38 Ro. 10.16 WHo hath beleeved our ‖ Or doctrine †Heb. 3◠He bearing report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him 3 * Ch 52.14 Mar. 9.12 He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and ‖ Or. be bid as it
mercies towards me are they restrained 16 Doubtless thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O LORD art our father ‖ Or our redeemer from everlasting is thy name our redeemer thy name is from everlasting 17 ¶ O LORD why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardned our heart from the fear Return for the servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance 18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while our adversaries have troden down thy sanctuary 19 We are thine thou never bearest rule over them ‖ Or thy name was not called upon them they were not called by thy name CHAP. LXIV 1 The church prayeth for the illustration of Gods power 5 Celebrating Gods mercy it maketh confession of their natural corruptions 9 It complaineth of their affliction OH that thou wouldest rent the heavens that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence 2 As when †Heb. the fire of meltings the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the waters to boyl to make thy name known to thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at thy presence 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for thou camest down the mountains flowed down at thy presence 4 For since the beginning of the world * Psal 31 19. 1 Cor. 2.9 men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye ‖ Or seen a God besides thee which doeth so for him c. seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him 5 Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousness those that remember thee in thy ways behold thou art wroth for we have sinned in those is continuance and we shall be saved 6 But we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses art as filthy rags and we all do * Psal 90.5 6. fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from us and hast †Heb. melted consumed us because of our iniquities 8 But now O LORD thou art our father we are the clay and thou our potter and we all are the work of thy hand 9 ¶ Be not * Pl. 79.8 wroth very sore O LORD neither remember iniquity for ever behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness Zion is a wilderness Jerusalem a desolation 11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised thee is burnt up with fire and all our pleasant things are laid waste 12 Wilt thou refrain thy self for these things O LORD wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore CHAP. LXV 1 The calling of the Gentiles 2 The Jews for their ineredulity idolatry and by pocrisie are rejected 8 A remnant shall be saved 11 Judgements on the wicked and blessings on the godly 17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem I * Rom. 9.24 25 26. 10.20 Eph. 2.12 13. Am sought of them that asked not for me I am found of them that sought me not I said Behold me behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face that sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense †Heb. upon bricks upon altars or brick 4 Which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments which eat swines flesh and ‖ Or pieces broth of abominable things is in their vessels 5 Which say Stand by thy selt come not near to me for I am hosier then thou these are a smoke in my ‖ Or anger nose a fire that burneth all the day 6 Behold it is written before me I will not keep silence but will recompense even recompense into their bosom 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together saith the LORD which have burnt incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom 8 ¶ Thus saith the LORD As the new wine is found in the cluster and one saith Destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will I do for my servants sake that I may not destroy them all 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritour of my mountains and mine elect shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in for my people that have sought me 11 ¶ But ye are they that forsake the LORD that forget my holy mountain that prepare a table for that ‖ Or Gad. troup and that furnish the drink-offering unto that ‖ Or Meni number 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter * Prov. 1 24 c. Ch. 66.4 Jer. 7.13 because when I called ye did not answer when I spake ye did not hear but did evil before mine eyes and did choose that wherein I delighted not 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoyce but ye shall be ashamed 14 Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for †Heb. breaking vexation of spirit 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord GOD shall slay thee and call his servants by another name 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes 17 ¶ For behold I create * Chap. 66 2â— 2 Pet. 2.12 Rev. 21.1 new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor †Heb. come upon the bea rt come into minde 18 But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that which I create for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy 19 And I will rejoyre in Jerusalem and joy in my people and the * Rev. 21.4 voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying 20 There shall be no more thence an insant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the childe shall die an hundred years old but the sinner â—eâ—no an hundred years old shall be accursed 21 And they
have peace 13 * Levit. 26.16 Deut. 28.38 Micah 6.15 Hag. 1.6 They have sown wheat but shall reap thorns they have put themselves to pain but shall not profit and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD 14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit Behold I will * Deut. 30.2 Chap. 32.37 pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them 15 And it shall come to pass after that I have plucked them out I will return and have compassion on them and will bring them again every man to his heritage and every man to his land 16 And it shall come to pass if they will diligently learn the ways of my people to swear by my name The LORD liveth as they taught my people to swear by my Baal then shall they be built in the midst of my people 17 But if they will not * Isa 60 12. obey I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation saith the LORD CHAP. XIII 1 In the â—â—pe of a lineâ— girdle kidden at Euphrates God prefigureth the destruction of his people 12Vnder the parable of the bottles filled with wine he foretelleth their drunkenness in misery 15 He exhorteth to prevent their future judgements 22 He sheweth their abominations are the cause thereof THus saith the LORD unto me Go and get thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loyns and put it not in water 2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loyns 3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time saying 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got which is upon thy loyns and arise go to Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock 5 So I went and hid it by Euphrates as the LORD commanded me 6 And it came to pass after many days that the LORD said unto me Arise go to Euphrates and take the girdle from thence which I commanded thee to hide there 7 Then I went to Euphrates and digged and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was marred it was profitable for nothing 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying 9 Thus saith the LORD After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem 10 This evil people which refuse to hear my words which walk in the ‖ Or stubb â—nness imagination of their heart and walk after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loyns of a man so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah saith the LORD that they might be unto me for a people for a name and for a praise for a glory but they would not hear 12 ¶ Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Every bottle shall be filled with wine and they shall say unto thee Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine 13 Then shalt thou say unto them Thus saith the LORD Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land even the kings that sit upon Davids throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness 14 And I will dash them †Heb. a man against his brother one against another even the fathers and the sons together saith the LORD I will not pity nor spare not have mercy †Heb. from destroying them but destroy them 15 ¶ Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the LORD hath spoken 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before he cause * If. 8.22 darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while ye look for light he turn it into the shadow of death and make it gross darkness 17 But if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and * La. 1.2 16 and 2.18 mine eye shall weep sore and run down with tears because the LORDs flock is carried away captive 18 Say unto the king and to the queen Humble your selves sit down for your ‖ Or head-tires principalities shall come down even the crown of your glory 19 The cities of the south shall be shut up and none shall open them Judah shall be carried away captive all of it it shall be wholly carried away captive 20 Lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the north where is the flock that was given thee thy beautiful flock 21 What wilt thou say when he shall †Heb. visit upon punish thee for thou hast taught them to be captains and as chief over thee shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail 22 ¶ And it thou say in thine heart * Ch 5.19 and 16.10 Wherefore come these things upon me for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered and thy heels ‖ Or shall be violently taken away made bare 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are †Heb. caught accustomed to do evil 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness 25 This is thy lot the portion of thy measures from me saith the LORD because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falshood 26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that thy shame may appear 27 I have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings the lewdness of thy whoredom and thine abominations on the hills in the fields wo unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean †Heb. after when â—et when shall it once be CHAP. XIV 1 The grievous famine 7 causeth Jeremiah to pray 10 The Lord will not be intreated for the people 13 Lying prophets are no excuse for them 17 Jeremiah is moved to complain for them THe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning †Heb. the words of the dearths or restraints the dearth 2 Judah mourneth and the gates thereof languish they are black unto the ground and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters they came to the pits and found no water they returned with their vessels empty they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads 4 Because the ground is chapt for there was no rain in the earth the plowmen were ashamed they covered their heads 5 Yea the hind also calved in the field and forsook it because there was no grass 6 And the wilde asses did stand in the high places they snuffed up the wind
everlasting love therefore ‖ Or have 〈◊〉 extended loving kindness unto thee with loving kindness have I drawn thee 4 Again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel thou shalt again be adorned with thy * Ex. 15.20 Judg. 11.34 ‖ Or timbrels tabrets and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall †Heb. profane them eat them as common things 6 For there shall be a day that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry Arise ye and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God 7 For thus saith the LORD Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say O LORD save thy people the remnant of Israel 8 Behold I will bring them from the north-countrey and gather them from the coasts of the earth and with them the blinde and the lame the woman with childe and her that travaileth with childe together a great company shall return thither 9 They shall come with weeping and with ‖ Or favours supplications will I lead them I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a strait way wherein they shall not stumble for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my * Ex. 4.22 first-born 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD O ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger then he 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD for wheat and for wine and for oyl and for the young of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a * Is 58.11 watered garden and they shall not sorrow any more at all 13 Then shall the virgin rejoyce in the dance both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoyce from their sorrow 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD 15 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Mat. 2.18 A voice was heard in Ramah lamentation end bitter weeping Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not 16 Thus saith the LORD Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the LORD and they shall come again from the land of the enemy 17 And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy children shall come again to their own border 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the LORD my God 19 Surely * Deu. 30. â— after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth 20 Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant childe for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowel †Heb. sound are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the LORD 21 Set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thine heart toward the high way even the way which thou wentest turn again O virgin of Israel turn again to these thy cities 22 ¶ How long wilt thou go about O thou backsliding daughter for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth A woman shall compass a man 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity The LORD bless thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness 24 And there shall dwell in Judah it self and in all the cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks 25 For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul 26 Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me 27 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will sowe the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast 28 And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the LORD 29 * Ezek. â—8 â— In those days they shall say no more The fathers have eaten a sowre grape and the childrens teeth are set on edge 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sowre grape his teeth shall be set on edge 31 ¶ Behold the * Heb. 8. â— days come saith the LORD that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they brake ‖ Or should I have continued an husband unto them although I was an husband unto them saith the LORD 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the LORD I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts * Ch. 24.7 and 20.22 and will be their God and they shall be my people 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the LORD for * Is 54.13 Joh. 6.45 they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the LORD for * Ch. 33.8 Mic. 7.18 Act. 10.43 I will forgive their iniquity I will remember their sin no more 35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Gen. 1.16 which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night which divideth * Is 51.15 the sea when the waves thereof roar the LORD of hosts is his name 36 * Is 54. â— Ch. 33.20 If those ordinances depart from before me saith the LORD then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever 37 Thus saith the LORD If * Ch. 33 2â— heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath I will also cast
of Judah saying 2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the LORD into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink 3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habaziniah and his brethren and all his sons the whole house of the Rechabites 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah a man of God which was by the chamber of the princes which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum the keeper of the †Heb. threshold or vesel door 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine and cups and I said unto them Drink ye wine 6 But they said We will drink no wine for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us saying Ye shall drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever 7 Neither shall ye build house nor sowe seed nor plant vineyard nor have any but all your days ye shall dwell in tents that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we vineyard nor field nor seed 10 But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us 11 But it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land that we said Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Caldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians so we dwell at Jerusalem 12 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the LORD 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them saying * Chap. 18.11 25.5 Return ye now every man from his evil way and iniend your doings and go not after other gods to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkned unto me 16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not hearkned unto me 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them because I have spoken unto them but they have not heard and I have called unto them but they have not answered 18 ¶ And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel †Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from Jonedab the son of Rechab to stand c. Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever CHAP. XXXVI 1 Jeremiah causeth Barueh to write his prophesie 5 and publickly to read it 11 The princes having intelligence thereof by Michalab send Jedudi to fetch the roll and read it 19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah 20 The king Jehoiakim being certified thereof heareth part of it and burneth the roll 27 Jeremiah denouneeth his judgement 32 Baruch writeth a new copy ANd it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations from the day I spake unto thee from the days of * Ch. 25.3 Josiah even unto this day 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of a book 5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up I cannot go into the house of the LORD 6 Therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORDS house upon the fasting-day and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities 7 It may be †Heb. their supplication shall sall they will present their supplication before the LORD and will return every one from his evil way for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people 8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet cummanded him reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORDs house 9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah in the ninth moneth that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe in the higher court at the ‖ Or door * Chap. 26.10 entry of the new gate of the LORDs house in the ears of all the people 11 ¶ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah the son Shaphan had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD 12 Then he went down into the kings house into the scribes chamber and lo all the princes sat there even Elishama the scribe and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah and Elnathan the son of Achbor and Gemariah the son of Shaphan and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah and all the princes 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in
of hosts in the land of the Caldeans 26 Come against her †Heb. from the and. from the utmost border open her store-houses ‖ Or tread her cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left 27 Slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter wo unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God the vengeance of his temple 29 Call together the archers against Babylon all ye that bend the bowe camp against it round about set none thereof escape recompense her according to her work according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the LORD against the holy One of Israel 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD 31 Behold I am against thee O thou †Heb. tride most proud saith the Lord GOD of hosts for thy day is come the time that I will visit thee 32 And †Heb. tride the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him 33 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together and all that took them caprives held them fast they refused to let them go 34 Their redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon 35 ¶ A sword is upon the Caldeans saith the LORD and upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men 36 A sword is upon the ‖ Or. chief stays †Heb. bars liars and they shall dote a sword is upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed 37 A sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her and they shall become as women a sword is upon her treasures and they shall be robbed 38 A drought is upon her waters and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols 39 Therefore the wilde beasts of the desert with the wilde beasts of the islands shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation 40 * Gen. 19. â—5 Chap. 49. â—8 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the LORD so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein 41 Behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth 42 They shall hold the bowe and the lance they are cruel and will not shew mercy their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses every one put in aray like a man to the battel against thee O daughter of Babylon 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him and pangs as of a woman in travail 44 Behold he shall come up * Chap. 49.39 like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong but I will make them suddenly run away from her and whom a chosen man that I may appoint over her for who is like me and * Job 41.10 Ch. 49.19 who will ‖ Or convent me 〈◊〉 plead appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Babylon and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Caldeans surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved and the cry is heard among the nations CHAP. LI. 1 The severe judgement of God against Babylon in revence of Israel 50 Jeremiah delivereth the book of this prophesit to Seraiah to be east into Euptrates in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon THus saith the LORD Behold I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the †Heb 〈◊〉 midst of them that rise up against me a destroying wind 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about 3 Against him that bendeth set the archer bend his bowe and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and spare ye not her young men destroy ye utterly all her host 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Caldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the LORD of hosts though their land was filled with sin against the holy One of Israel 6 * Ch. 30.8 Rev. 18.4 Fiee our of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time of the LORD vengeance he will render unto her a recompence 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORDS hand that made all the earth drunken the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the nations are mad 8 Babylon is suddenly * Isa 23.9 Rev. 14.8 18.2 faln and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain if so be she may be healed 9 We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own countrey for her judgement reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God 11 Make †Heb â—urâ— bright the arrows gather the shields the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the LORD the vengeance of his temple 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon make the watch strong set up the watchmen prepare the †Heb. liers in wait ambushes for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness 14 * Am. 6.8 The LORD of hosts hath sworn †Heb. by his soul by himself saying Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillers
of the field had shadow under it and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof and all flesh was fâ—d of it 13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed and behold a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven 14 He cried †Cald. with might aloud and faid thus How down the tree and cut off his branches shake off his leaves and scatter his fruit let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from his branches 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth 16 Let his heart be changed from mans and let a beasts heart be given unto him and let seven times pass over him 17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men 18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen now thou O Belteshazzar declare the interpretation thereof forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation but thou art able for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee 19 ¶ Then Daniel whose name was Belteshazzar was astonied for one hour and his thoughts troubled him the king spake and said Belteshazzar let not the dream or the interpretation thereof trouble thee Belteshazzar answered and said My lord the dream be to them that hate thee and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies 20 The tree that thou sawest which grew was strong whose height reached unto the heaven and the â—ight thereof to all the earth 21 Whose leaves were fair and the fruit thereof much and in it was meat for all under which the beasts of the field dwelt and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation 22 It is thou O king that art grown and become strong for thy greatness is grown and reacheth unto heaven and thy dominion to the end of the earth 23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven and saying Hew the tree down and destroy it yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts of the field till seven times pass over him 24 This is the interpretation O king and this is the decree of the most High which is come upon my lord the king 25 That they shall * Ch. 5.21 c. drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven and seven times shall pass over thee till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree-roots thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule 27 Wherefore O king let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor if it may be ‖ Or an beaâ—ing of thineerroâ—â— a lengthning of thy tranquillity 28 ¶ All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar 29 At the end of twelve moneths he walked ‖ Or upon in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon 30 The king spake and said Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty 31 While the word was in the kings mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying O king Nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken The kingdom is departed from thee 32 And they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will 33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws 34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lift up mine eyes unto heaven and mine understanding returned unto me and I blessed the most High and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever whose dominion is * Ch. 7.14 Mic. 4.7 Lu. 1.33 an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him * Job 9.12 If. 45.9 What doest thou 36 At the same time my reason returned unto me and for the glory of my kingdom mine honour and brightness returned unto me and my counsellours and my lords sought unto me and I was established in my kingdom and excellent majesty was added unto me 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven all whose works are truth and his ways judgement and those that walk in pride he is able to abase CHAP. V. 1 Belshazzars impious â—east 5 A â—and-writing unknown to the magicians troubleth the king 10 At the commendation of the queen Daniel is brought 17 He reproving the king of pride and idolatry 25 readeth and interpreteth the writing 30 The monarchy is translated to the Medes BElshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand 2 Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had †Cald. brought forth taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem that the king and his princes his wives and his concubines might drink therein 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem and the king and his princes his wives and his concubines drank in them 4 They drunk wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver of brass of iron of wood and of stone 5 ¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a mans hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the kings palace and the king saw the
part of the hand that wrote 6 Then the kings †Cald. brightnessâ—â— countenance †Cald. changed iâ— was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the ‖ Or girdles †Cald. bindings oâ— knots joynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smote one against another 7 The king cried †Cald. with might aloud to bring in the astrologers the Caldeans and the soothsayers and the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon Whosoever shall read this writing and shew me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with ‖ Or purpâ—â— scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom 8 Then came in all the kings wise men but they could not read the writing nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof 9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled and his †Cald. brightnesses countenance was changed in him and his lords were astonied 10 ¶ Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet-house and the queen spake and said O king live for ever let not thy thoughts trouble thee nor let thy countenance be changed 11 * Ch. 2.48 There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods and in the days of thy ‖ Or grandfather father light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy ‖ Or grandfather father the king I say thy father made * Ch. 4.9 master of the magicians astrologers Caldeans and soothsayers 12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding ‖ Or of an interpreter c. interpreting of dreams and shewing of hard sentences and ‖ Or of a dissolver dissolving of †Cald. knots doubts were found in the same Daniel whom the king named Belteshazzar now let Daniel be called and he will shew the interpretation 13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king and the king spake and said unto Daniel Art thou that Daniel which art of the children of the captivity of Judah whom the king my ‖ Or grandfather father brought out of Jewry 14 I have even heard of thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee 15 And now the wise men the astrologers have been brought in before me that they should read this writing and make known unto me the interpretation thereof but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing 16 And I have heard of thee that thou canst †Cald. interpret make interpretations and dissolve doubts now if thou canst read the writing and make known to me the interpretation thereof thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about thy neck and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom 17 ¶ Then Daniel answered and said before the king Let thy gifts be to thy self and give thy ‖ Or feâ— as Ch. 2.6 rewards to another yet I will read the writing unto the king and make known to him the interpretation 18 O thou king the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour 19 And for the majesty that he gave him all people nations and languages trembled and feared before him whom he would be slew and whom he would he kept alive and whom he would he set up and whom he would he put down ‖ Or to dead proudly 20 But when his heart was lifted up and his minde hardned in pride he was †Cald. made to come down deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him 21 And he was * Ch. 4.22 driven from the sons of men and ‖ Or he made his heart equal c. his heart was made like the beasts and his dwelling was with the wilde asses they fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will 22 And thou his son O Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart though thou knewest all this 23 But hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee and thou and thy lords thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold of brass iron wood and stone which see not nor hear nor know and the God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him and this writing was written 25 ¶ And this is the writing that was written MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN 26 This is the interpretation of the thing MENE God hath numbred thy kingdom and finished it 27 TEKEL thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting 28 PERES thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians 29 Then commanded Belshazzar and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom 30 ¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Caldeans slain 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom †Cald. he as the son of c. being ‖ Or now about threescore and two year old CHAP. VI. 1 Daniel is made chief of the presidents 4 They couspiring against him obtain an idolatrous decree 10 Daniel accused of the breach thereof is cast into the lions den 18 Daniel is saved 24 his adversaries devoured 25 and God magnified by a decree IT pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes which should be over the whole kingdom 2 And over these three presidents of whom Daniel was first that the princes might give accounts unto them and the king should have no damage 3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm 4 ¶ Then the presidents and princes sought to finde occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they could finde none occasion nor fault forasmuch as he was faithful neither was there any errour or fault found in him 5 Then said these men We shall not finde any occasion against this Daniel except we finde it against him concerning the law of his God 6 Then these presidents and princes †Or came â—â—multâ—â—ously assembled together to the king and said thus unto him King Darius live for ever 7 All the presidents of the kingdom the governours and the princes the counsellours and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm ‖
day and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and I will †Heb. cut â—ff deâ—troy thy mother 6 ¶ My people are †Heb. cut off destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children 7 As they were increased so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory into shame 8 They eat up the sin of my people and they †Heb. lift up their soul to their iniquity let their heart on their iniquity 9 And there shall be * Isa 24.2 like people like priest and I will †Heb. visit upon punish them for their ways and †Heb. cause to return reward them their doings 10 For they shall eat and not have enough they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have left off to take heed to the LORD 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart 12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks and poplars and elms because the shadow thereof is good therefore your daughters shall commit wheredom and your spouses shall commit adultery 14 ‖ Or shall I not c. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor your spouses when they commit adultery for themselves are separated with whores and they sacrifice with harlots therefore the people that doth not understand shall ‖ Or be punished fall 15 ¶ Though thou Israel play the harlot yet let not Judah offend and come not ye unto Gilgal neither go ye up to * 1 King â—2 29 Beth-aven nor swear The LORD liveth 16 â—or Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer now the LORD will â—eeâ— them as a lamb in a large place 17 Ephraim is joyned to idols let him alone 18 Their drink †Heb. â—â—â—e is sowre they have committed whoredom continually her †Heb. â—â—eldâ— rulers with shame do love Give ye 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings and they shall be ashame because of their sacrifices CHAP. V. 1 Gods judâ—ements against the priests the people and the princes of Israel for tâ—â—â—r manifold sins 15 until they repent HEar ye this O priests and hearken ye house of Israel and give ye ear O house of the king for judgement is toward you because ye have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor 2 And the revolter are profound to make slaughter ‖ Or 〈◊〉 c. though I have been †Heb. a 〈◊〉 a rebuker of them all 3 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me for now O Ephraim thou committest whoredom and Israel is defiled 4 †Heb. they will not give ‖ Or their doings will not suffer thâ—m They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them and they have not known the LORD 5 And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also shall fall with them 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD but they shall not finde him he hath withdrawn himself from them 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they have begottâ—n strange children now shall a moneth devour them with their portions 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah cry aloud at Beth-aven after thee O Benjamin 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound thereâ—oâ—â— I will pour out my wrath upon them like water 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgement because be willingly walked after the commandment 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as ‖ Or a worn rottenness 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and sent ‖ Or to the king of Jareb or to the king that sâ—ould plead to king Jareb yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah I even I will tear and go away I will take away and none shall rescue him 15 ¶ I will go and return to my place †Heb. till they be guilty till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early CHAP. VI. 1 An exhortation to repentance 4 A complaint of their untowardness and iniquity COmâ— and let us return unto the LORD for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will binde us up 2 * 1 Cor. 15.4 Afâ—er two days will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight 3 Then shall we know if we follow on to know the LORD his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and former rain unto the earth 4 ¶ O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee for your ‖ Or mercy or kindness goodness is as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets I have slain them by the words of my mouth ‖ Or that the judgements might be c. and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth 6 For I desired * 1 Sam â—5 22 Eccles 5.1 Mat. 9.13 12. â— mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God mâ—re then burnt-offerings 7 But they ‖ Or like Adam like men have transgressed the covenant there have they dealt treacherously against me 8 Gâ—â—ead is a city of them that work iniquity and is ‖ Or â—unning â—or bloud polluted with â—lâ—â—d 9 And as troups of robbers wait for a man so the company of priests murder in the way †Heb with one shoulder or to Sâ—eâ—hem by consent for the commit ‖ Or enormity Jewdness 10 I â—ave seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel there is the whoredom of Ephraim Israel is defiled 11 Also O Judah he hath set an harvest for thee when I returned the captivity of my people CHAP. VII 1 A reproof of manifold sins 11 Gods wrath against them for their hypocrisie WHen I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered and the
†Heb. evils wickedness of Samaria for they commit falshood and the chief cometh in and the troop of robbers †Heb. strippeth sâ—oileth without 2 And the †Heb. say not to consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about they are before my face 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies 4 They are all adulterers as an even heated by the baker ‖ Or the raiser will cease who ceaseth ‖ Or from waking from raising after he hath kneaded the dough until it be leavened 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick ‖ Or with beâ—t through wine with bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners 6 For they have ‖ Or applied made ready their heart like an oven whiles they lie in wait their baker â—â—eepeth all the night in the morning it burneth as a â—laming firâ— 7 They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges all their kings are faln there is none among them that calleth unto me 8 Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people Ephraim is a cake not turned 9 Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are †Heb. sprinkled here and there upon him yet he knoweth not 10 And the * Gâ— 5. â— pride of Israel testifieth to his face and they do not return to the LORD their God nor seek him for all this 11 ¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria 12 When they shall go I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard 13 Wo unto them for they have fled from me †Heb. spoil destruction unto them because they have transgressed against me though I have redeemed them yet they have spoken lies against me 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds they assemble themselves for corn and wine and they rebel against me 15 Though I ‖ Or chastned have bound and strengthned their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me 16 They return but not to the most High they are like a deceitful bowe their princes shall fall by the sword for the * Ps 73 â— rage of their tongue this shall be their decision in the land of Egypt CHAP. VIII 1 12 Destruction is threatned for their impiety 5 and idolatry SEt the trumpet to †Heb. thereof of thy moutâ— thy mouth be shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law 2 Israel shall cry unto me My God we know thee 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good the enemy shall pursue him 4 They have set up kings but not by me they have made princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off 5 ¶ Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled against them how long will it be ere they attain to innocency 6 For from Israel was it also the workman made it therefore it is not God but the call of Samaria shall be broken in pieces 7 For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind it hath no ‖ Or standingâ—orn stalk the bud shall yeeld no meal if so be it yeeld the strangers shall swallow it up 8 Israel is swallowed up now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure 9 For they are gone up to Assyria a wilde ass alone by himself Ephraim hath hired †Heb. loves lovers 10 Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall ‖ Or begin sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin 12 I have written to him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing 13 ‖ Or in the sacrifices of mine offerinâ—s they c. They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it but the LORD accepteth them not now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins they shall return to Egypt 14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker and buildeth temples and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities but I will send a fire upon his cities and it shall devour the palaces thereof CHAP. IX The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry REjoyce not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God thou hast loved a * Jer. 44.17 reward ‖ Or in c. upon every corn-floor 2 The floor and the ‖ Or wine-fat wine-press shall not feed them and the new wine shall fail in her 3 They shall not dwell in the LORDs land but Ephraim shall return to Egypt and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD neither shall they be pleasing unto him their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners all that eat thereof shall be polluted for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD 5 What will ye do in the solemn day and in the day of the feast of the LORD 6 For lo they are gone because of †Heb. spoil destruction Egypt shall gather them up Memphis shall bury them ‖ Or their silver shall be desired the nettle c. †Heb. the desire the pleasant places for their silver nettles shall possess them thorns shall be in their tabernacles 7 The days of visitation are come the days of recompence are come Israel shall know it the prophet is a fool the †Heb. man of the spirit spiritual man is mad for the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways and hatred ‖ Or aâ—ainst in the house of his God 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of * Judg. 19.18 Gibeah therefore he will remember their iniquity he will visit their sins 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first time but they went to * Numb 25.3 Baal-peor and separated themselves unto that shame and their abominations were according as they loved 11 As for Ephraim their glory shall flie away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception 12 Though they bring up their children yet will I bereave them that there shall not be
are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion 7 He hath laid my vine waste and †Heb. laid my fig tree for a barking barked my fig-tree he hath made it clean bare and cast it away the branches thereof are made white 8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth 9 The meat-offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD the priests the LORDS ministers mourn 10 The field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is wasted the new wine is ‖ Or ashamed dried up the oyl languâ—sheth 11 Be ye ashamed O ye husbandmen howl O ye vine-dressers for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field is perished 12 The vine is dried up and the fig-tree languisheth the pomegranate-tree the palm tree also and the apple-tree even all the trees of the field are withered because joy is withered away from the sons of men 13 Gird your selves and lament ye priests howl ye ministers of the altar come lie all night in sackcloth ye ministers of my God for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God 14 ¶ * Ch. 2.15 Sanctifie ye a fast call a ‖ Or day of restraint solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD 15 Alas for the day for * Isa 13.6 the day of the LORD is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and gladness from the house of our God 17 The †Heb. grains seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered 18 How do the beasts groan the herds of cattel are perplexed because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made desolate 19 O LORD to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the ‖ Or â—abitations pastures of the wilderness and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the filed 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness CHAP. II. 1 He sheweth unto Zion the terribleness of Gods judgement 12 He exhorteth to repentance 15 prescribeth a fast 18 promiseth a blessing thereon 21 He comforteth Zion with present 28 and future blessings BLow ye the ‖ Or â—â—lâ—tâ— trumpet in Zion and found an alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the LORD cometh for it is nigh at hand 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess a day of clouds and of thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains a great people and a strong there hath not been ever the like neither shall be any more after it even to the years †Heb. of generation and generation of many generations 3 A fire devoureth before them and behinde them a flame burneth the land is as the garden of Eden before them and behinde them a desolate wilderness yea and nothing shall escape them 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and as hors-men so shall they run 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble as a strong people set in battel aray 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained all faces shall gather †Heb. poâ— blackness 7 They shall run like mighty men they shall climb the wall like men of war and they shall march every one on his ways and they shall not break their ranks 8 Neither shall one thrust another they shall walk every one in his path and when they fall upon the ‖ Or 〈◊〉 sword they shall not be wounded 9 They shall run to and fro in the city they shall run upon the wall they shall climb up upon the houses they shall enter in at the windows like a thief 10 The earth shall quake before them the heavens shall tremble * Isa 1â— 10 Ezek. 32.7 the sun and the moon shall be dark and the stars shall withdraw their shining 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is strong that executeth his word for the * Jer. 30. â— Am. 5 1â— Zeph. 1.15 day of the LORD is great and very terrible and who can abide it 12 ¶ Therefore also now saith the LORD * Jer. 4. â— Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning 13 And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is * Ex. 34.6 Psal 86.5 â—on 4.2 gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil 14 * son 3.9 Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behinde him even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the LORD your God 15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion * Ch. 3.14 sanctifie a fast call a solemn assembly 16 Gather the people sanctifie the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet 17 Let the priests the ministers of the LORD weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O LORD and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heâ—then should ‖ Or use a by-word against them rule over them * Psal 42.10 70.10 115.2 wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God 18 ¶ Then will the LORD be jealous for his land and pity his people 19 Yea the LORD will answer and say unto his people Behold I will send you corn and wine and oyl and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army and will drive him into a land barren and desolate with his face toward the east-sea and his hinder part towards the utmost sea and his stink shall come up and his ill savour shall come up because †Heb. he hath magnified to do he hath done great things 21 ¶ Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the LORD will do great things 22 Be not afraid ye beasts of the field for the pastures of the wilderness do spring for the tree beareth her fruit the fig-tree and the vine do yeeld their strength 23 Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the LORD your God for he hath given you ‖ Or a teacher of righteousness the former rain
A famine of the word threatned THus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me and behold a basket of summer-fruit 2 And he said Amos what seest thou and I said A basket of summer-fruit Then said the LORD unto me The end is come upon my people of Israel I will not again pass by them any more 3 And the songs of the temple †Heb. shall howl shall be howlings in that day saith the Lord GOD there shall be many dead bodies in every place they shall cast them forth †Heb. be silent with silence 4 ¶ Hear this O ye that swallow up the needy even to make the poor of the land to fail 5 Saying When will the ‖ Or moneth new-moon be gone that we may sell corn and the sabbath that we may †Heb. open set forth wheat making the ephah small and the shekel great and †Heb. perverting the balances of deceit falsifying the balances by deceit 6 That we may buy the poor for * Chap. 2.6 silver and the needy for a pair of shoes yea and sell the refuse of the wheat 7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works 8 Shall not the land tremble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein and it shall rise up wholly as a floud and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the floud of Egypt 9 And it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord GOD that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loyns and baldness upon every head and I will make it as the mourning of an onely son and the end thereof as a bitter day 11 ¶ Behold the days come saith the Lord GOD that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the LORD 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD and shall not finde it 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria and say Thy god O Dan liveth and the manner of Beer-sheba liveth even they shall fall and never rise up again CHAP. IX 1 The certainty of the desolation 11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David I Saw the Lord standing upon the altar and he said Smite the ‖ Or chapiter or knop lintel of the door that the posts may shake and ‖ Or wound them cut them in the head all of them and I will slay the last of them with the sword he that fleeth of them shall not flee away and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered 2 * Psal 139.8 c. Though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them though they climb up to heaven thence will I bring them down 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will I command the serpent and he shall bite them 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies thence will I command the sword and it shall slay them and * Jer. 44.11 I will set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good 5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land and it shall melt and all that dwell therein shall mourn and it shall rise up wholly like a floud and shall be drowned as by the floud of Egypt 6 It is he that buiâ—deth his ‖ Or spheres †Heb. ascensions * Ps 104.3 stories in the heaven and hath founded his ‖ Or bundle troup in the earth he that * Chap. 5.8 calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth the LORD is his name 7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me O children of Israel saith the LORD Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the * Jer. 47.4 Philistines from Caphtor and the Assyrians from Kir 8 Behold the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob saith the LORD 9 For lo I will command and I will †Heb. cause to move sift the house of Israel among all nations like as corn is sifted in a sive yet shall not the least †Heb. stone grain fall upon the earth 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword which say The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us 11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the * Act. 15.16 tabernacle of David that is faln and †Heb. hâ—â—â—e or wall close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruines and I will build it as in the days of old 12 That they may possess the ramnant of Edom and of all the heathen †Heb. upon whom my name is called which are called by my name saith the LORD that doeth this 13 Behold the days come saith the LORD that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that †Heb. draweth forth soweth seed and the mountains shall drop ‖ Or nâ—w wine * Joel 3.18 sweet wine and all the hills shall melt 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them and they shalt plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them 15 And I will plant them upon their land and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them saith the LORD thy God ¶ OBADIAH 1 The destruction of Edom 3 for their pride 10 and for their wrong unto Jacob. 17 The salvation and victory of Jacob. THe vision of Obadiah Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom. * Jer. 49.14 We have heard a rumour from the LORD and an ambassadour is sent among the heathen Arise ye and let us rise up against her in battel 2 Behold I have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised 3 ¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock whose habitation is high that saith in his heart Who shall bring me down to the ground 4 * Jer. 49.16 Though thou exalt thy self as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars thence will I bring thee down saith the
I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place and the name of the Chemarims with the priests 5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the hous-tops and them that worship and that sware ‖ Or to the LORD by the LORD and that sware by Malcham 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD and those that have not sought the LORD nor enquired for him 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD for the day of the LORD is at hand for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice he hath †Heb. sanctified or prepared bid his guests 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORDS sacrifice that I will †Heb. visit upon punish the princes and the kings children and all such as are clothed with strange apparel 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit 10 And it shall come to pass in that day saith the LORD that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and an howling from the second and a great crashing from the hills 11 Howl ye inhabitants of Maktesh for all the merchant-people are cut down all they that bear silver are cut off 12 And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with candles and punish the men that are †Heb. curded or tâ—ickned settled on their lees that say in their heart The LORD will not do good neither will he do evil 13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty and their houses a desolation they shall also build houses but * Deut. 28.30 39. Am. 5.11 not inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards but not drink the wine thereof 14 The great day of the LORD is near it is near and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the LORD the mighty man shall cry there bitterly 15 That day is a day of * Jer. 30. â— Joel 2.11 Am. 5.18 wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wasteness and desolation a day of darkness and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities and against the high towers 17 And I will bring distress upon men that they shall walk like blinde men because they have sinned against the LORD and their bloud shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as the dung 18 * Prov. 11.4 Ezek. 7.19 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORDS wrath but the whole land shall be * Ch. 3 8. devoured by the fire of his jealousy for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land CHAP. II. 1 An exhortation to repentance 4 The judgement of the Philistines 8 of Moah and Ammon 12 of Ethiopia and Assyria GAther your selves together yea gather together O nation ‖ Or not desirous not desired 2 Before the decree bring forth before the day pass as the chaff before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you before the day of the LORDS anger come upon you 3 Seek ye the LORD all ye meek of the earth which have wrought his judgement seek righteousness seek meekness it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORDS anger 4 ¶ For Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon-day and Ekron shall be rooted up 5 Wo unto the inhabitants of the sea-coasts the nation of the Cherethites the word of the LORD is against you O Canaan the land of the Philistines I will even destroy thee that there shall be no inhabitant 6 And the sea-coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks 7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah they shall feed thereupon in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening ‖ Or â—â—en c. for the LORD their God shall visit them and turn away their captivity 8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the children of Ammon whereby they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border 9 Therefore as I live saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah even the breeding of nettles and salt-pits and a perpetual desolation the residue of my people shall spoil them and the remnant of my people shall possess them 10 This shall they have for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them for he will †Heb. make leaâ—â— famish all the gods of the earth and men shall worship him every one from his place even all the isles of the heathen 12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians also ye shall be slain by my sword 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her all the beasts of the nations both the ‖ Or Pelican * Isa 34.11 cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the ‖ Or knops or chapiters upper lintels of it their voice shall sing in the windows desolation shall be in the thresholds ‖ Or when he hath uncovered for he shall uncover the cedar-work 15 This is the rejoycing city that dwelt carelesly that said in her heart * Isa 47.8 I am and thâ—re is none beside me how is she become a desolation a place for beasts to lie down in every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand CHAP. III. 1 A sharp reproof of Jerusalem for divers sins 8 An exhortation to wait for the restauration of Israel 14 to rejoyce for their salvation by God WO to ‖ Or gluttonous †Heb. craw her that is filthy and polluted to the oppressing city 2 She obeyed not the voice she received not ‖ Or instruction correction she trusted not in the LORD she drew not near to her God 3 * Ez. 22.27 Micah 3.9 10. Her princes within her are roaring lions her judges are evening wolves they gnaw not the bones till the morrow 4 Her * Jer. 23.11 Hos 9.7 prophets are light and treacherous persons her priests have polluted the sanctuary they have done * Ezek. 22.26 violence to the law 5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity †Heb. morning by morning every morning doth he bring his judgement to light he faileth not but the unjust knoweth no shame 6 I have cut off the nations their ‖ Or corners towers are desolate I made their streets waste that none passeth
with you saith the LORD of hosts 5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt so my spirit remaineth among you fear ye not 6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts * Heb. 12 26. Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land 7 And I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory saith the LORD of hosts 8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the LORD of hosts 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater then of the former saith the LORD of hosts and in this place will I give peace saith the LORD of hosts 10 ¶ In the four and twentieth day of the ninth moneth in the second year of Darius came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet saying 11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Ask now the priests concerning the law saying 12 It one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oyl or any meat shall it be holy And the priests answered and said No. 13 Then said Haggai Is one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean And the priests answered and said It shall be unclean 14 Then answered Haggai and said So is this people and so is this nation before me saith the LORD and so is every work of their hands and that which they offer there is unclean 15 And now I pray you consider from this day and upward from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD 16 Since those days were when one came to an heap of twenty measures there were but ten when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press there were but twenty 17 ¶ I smote you * Am. 4.9 with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands yet ye turned not to me saith the LORD 18 Consider now from this day and upward from the four and twentieth day of the ninth moneth even from the day that the foundation of the LORDs temple was laid consider it 19 Is the seed yet in the barn yea as yet the vine and the fig-tree and the pomegranate and the olive-tree hath not brought forth from this day will I bless you 20 ¶ And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the moneth saying 21 Speak to Zerubbabel governour of Judah saying I will shake the heavens and the earth 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them and the horses and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his brother 23 In that day saith the LORD of hosts will I take thee O Zerubbabel my servant the son of Shealtiel saith the LORD and will make thee as a signet for I have chosen thee saith the LORD of hosts ¶ ZECHARIAH CHAP. I. 1 Zechariah exhorteth to repentance 7 The vision of the horses 12 At the prayer of the angel comfortable promises are made to Jerusalem 18 The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters IN the eighth moneth in the second year of Darius came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Barachiah the son of Iddo the prophet saying 2 The LORD hath been †Heb. with displeasure sore displeased with your fathers 3 Therefore say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD of hosts * Mal. 3.7 Turn ye unto me saith the LORD of hosts and I will turn unto you saith the LORD of hosts 4 Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former prophets have cried saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts * Is 31.6 Jer. 3.12 18.11 Ezek. 18.30 Hos 14 1◠Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the LORD 5 Your fathers where are they and the prophets do they live for ever 6 But my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the prophets did they not ‖ Or overtake take hold of your fathers and they returned and said * L◠1.18 Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us according to our ways and according to our doings so hath he dealt with us 7 ¶ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh moneth which is the moneth Sebat in the second year of Darius came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Barachiah the son of Iddo the prophet saying 8 I saw by night and behold a man riding upon a red horse and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom and behinde him were there red horses ‖ Or hay speckled and white 9 Then said I O my Lord what are these And the angel that talked with me said unto me I will shew thee what these be 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees and said We have walked to and fro through the earth and behold all the earth sitteth still and is at rest 12 ¶ Then the angel of the LORD answered and said O LORD of hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words 14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me Cry thou saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts I am * Ch. 8.2 jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousie 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at case for I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the LORD of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem 17 Cry yet saying Thus saith the LORD of hosts My cities through †Hēb good prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem 18 ¶ Then lift I up mine eyes and saw and behold four horns 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me What be these And he answered me These are the horns which have scattered Judah Israel and Jerusalem 20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters 21 Then said I What come these to do And he spake saying These are the horns which have scattered Judah
Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battel-bowe shall be cut off and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be * Psa â—2 8 from sea even to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth 11 As for thee also ‖ Or whose covenant is by bloud by the bloud of thy covenant I have sent forth thy * Isa 6â— 1 prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water 12 ¶ Turn ye to the strong hold ye prisoners of hope even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee 13 When I have bent Judah for me filled the bowe with Ephraim and raised up thy sons O Zion against thy sons O Greece and made thee as the sword of a mighty man 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet and shall go with whirlwinds of the south 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them and they shall devour and ‖ Or subdue the stones of the sling subdue with sling-stones and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine and they ‖ Or shall fill both the bowls c. shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar 16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people for they shall be as the stones of a crown lifted up as an ensigne upon his land 17 For how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty corn shall make the young men ‖ Or grow or speak cheerful and new wine the maids CHAP. X. 1 God is to be sought unto and not idols 5 As he visited his flock for sin so be will save and restore them ASk ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain so the LORD shall make ‖ Or lightnings bright clouds and give them showers of rain to every one grass in the field 2 For the * Jer. 10.8 Hab. 2.18 †Heb. teraphims idols have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams they comfort in vain therefore they went their way as a flock they ‖ Or answered that c. were troubled because there was no shepherd 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds and I †Heb. visited upon punished the goats for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battel 4 Out of him came forth the corner out of him the nail out of him the battel-bowe out of him every oppressour together 5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty men which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battel and they shall fight because the LORD is with them and ‖ Or they shall make the riders on horses ashamed the riders on horses shall be confounded 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them again to place them for I have mercy upon them and they shall be as though I had not cast them off for I am the LORD their God and will hear them 7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoyce as through wine yea their children shall see it and be glad their heart shall rejoyce in the LORD 8 I will hiss for them and gather them for I have redeemed them and they shall increase as they have increased 9 And I will sowe them among the people and they shall remember me in far countreys and they shall live with their children and turn again 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and place shall not be found for them 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall smite the waves in the sea and all the deeps of the river shall dry up and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD and they shall walk up and down in his name saith the LORD CHAP. XI 1 The destruction of Jerusalem 3 The elect being cared for the rest are rejected 10 The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ 15 The type and curse of a foolish shepherd OPen thy doors O Lebanon that the fire may devour thy cedars 2 Howl fir-tree for the cedar is faln because the ‖ Or galants mighty are spoiled howl O ye oaks of Bashan for ‖ Or the defenced forest the forest of the vintage is come down 3 ¶ There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds for their glory is spoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions for the pride of Jordan is spoiled 4 Thus saith the LORD my God Feed the flock of the slaughter 5 Whose possessours slay them and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say Blessed be the LORD for I am rich and their own shepherds pity them not 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land saith the LORD but lo I will †Heb. make to be found deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand and into the hand of his king and they shall smite the land and out of their hand I will not deliver them 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter ‖ Or verily the poor even you O poor of the flock and I took unto me two staves the one I called Beauty and the other I called ‖ Or Binders Bands and I fed the flock 8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one moneth and my soul †Heb. was straitned for them lothed them and their soul also abhorred me 9 Then said I I will not feed you * Jer. 15.2 that that dieth let it die and that that is to be cut off let it be cut off and let the rest eat every one the flesh †Heb. of his fellow or neighbour of another 10 ¶ And I took my staff even Beauty and cut it asunder that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people 11 And it was broken in that day and ‖ Or the poor of the flock c. certainly knew so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD 12 And I said unto them †Heb. If it be good in your eyes If ye think good give me my price and if not forbear so they * Matth. 26.15 weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver 13 And the LORD said unto me Cast it unto the * Mat. 27.9 10. potter a goodly price that I was prised at of them And I took the
* Zattu Zamoth * Elioenai Eliadas * Eliashib Elisimus * Mattaniah Othonias Jarimoth and * Zabad Sabatus and * Aziza Sardeus 29 Of the sons of Bebai Johannes and Ananias and * Zabbai Jolabad and * Athlai Amatheis 30 Of the sons of * Bani Mani * Meshullam Olamus * Malluch Mamuchus * Adaiah Jedeus Jasubus * Sheal. Jasael and Hieremoth 31 †Of the names in verse 31 32 34 35 see Ezra 10.30 31 34 c. And of the sons of Addi Naathus and Moosias Lacunus and Naidus and Mathanias and Sesthel Balnuus and Manasseas 32 And of the sons of Annas Elionas and Aseas and Melchias and Sabbeus and Simon Chosameus 33 And of the sons of Asom * Mattenai Altaneus and * Mattithiah Matthias and * Zabad Bannaia Eliphalat and Manasses and Semei 34 And of the sons of Maani Jeremias Momdis Omaerus Juel Mabdai and Pelias and Anos Carabasion and Enasibus and Mamnitanaimus Eliasis Bannus Eliali Samis Selemias Nathanias and of the sons of Ozora Sesis Esril Azaelus Samatus Zambis Josiphus 35 And of the sons of Ethma Mazitias Zabadaias Edes Juel Banaias 36 All these had taken strange wives and they put them away with their children 37 And the priests and Levites and they that were of Israel dwelt in Jerusalem and in the countrey in the first day of the seventh moneth so the children of Israel were in their ‖ Or villagâ—â— habitations 38 * Neh. 8.1 And the whole multitude came together with one accord into the broad place of the holy porch toward the east 39 And they spake unto Esdras the priest and reader that he would bring the law of Moses that was given of the Lord God of Israel 40 So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole multitude from man to woman and to all the priests to hear the law in the first day of the seventh moneth 41 And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from morning unto mid-day before both men and women and all the multitude gave heed unto the law 42 And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a pulpit of wood which was made for that purpose 43 And there stood up by him Matathias Sammus Ananias Azarias Urias ‖ Or Hilkiah Ezecias ‖ Or Maasiah Balasamus upon the right hand 44 And upon his left hand stood ‖ Or Pedaiah Phaldaius Misael Melchias ‖ Or Hashum Lothasubus and ‖ See Neh. 8.4 Nabarias 45 The took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude for he sat †Heb. above them all honourably in the first place in the sight of them all 46 And when he opened the law they stood all straight up So Esdras blessed the Lord God most high the God of hosts Almighty 47 And all the people answered Amen and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground and worshipped the Lord. 48 Also Jesus Anus Sarabias Adinus Jacubus Sabbateas ‖ Or Hodijah Auteas Maianeas and Calitas Azarias and Joazabdus and Ananias Biatas the Levites taught the law of the Lord making them withal to understand it 49 ‖ Then Nehemiah and Ezra the priest and scribe and the Levites that instructed the people said unto all the people Nehem. 8.9 Then spake Attharates unto Esdras the chief priest and reader and to the Levites that taught the multitude even to all saying 50 This day is holy unto the Lord for they all wept when they heard the law 51 Go then and eat the fat and drink the sweet and send part to ‖ Or the poor them that have nothing 52 For this day is holy unto the Lord and be not sorrowful for the Lord will bring you to honour 53 So the Levites published all things to the people saying This day is holy to the Lord be not sorrowful 54 Then went they their way every one to eat and drink and make merry and to give part to them that had nothing and to make great cheer 55 Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed and for the which they had been assembled II. ESDRAS CHAP. I. 1 Esdras is commanded to reprove the people 24 God threatneth to cast them off 35 to give their houses to a people of more grace then they THe second book of the prophet * Ezra 7.1 Esdras the son of Saraias the son of Azarias the son of Helchias the son of ‖ Or Shallum Sadamias the son of Sadoc the son of Achitob 2 The son of Achias the son of Phinees the son of Heli the son of Amarias the son of Aziei the son of Marimoth the son of Arna the son of Ozias the son of Borith the son of Abisei the son of Phinees the son of Eleazar 3 The son of Aaron of the tribe of Levi which was captive in the land of the Medes in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians 4 And the word of the Lord came unto me saying 5 Go thy way and * Isa â— â— shew my people their sinful deeds and their children their wickedness which they have done against me that they may tell their childrens children 6 Because the sins of their fathers are increased in them for they have forgotten me and have offered unto strange gods 7 Am not I even he that brought them out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage but they have provoked me unto wrath and despised my counsels 8 Pull thou off then the hair of thy head and cast all evil upon them for they have not been obedient unto my law but it is a rebellious people 9 How long shall I forbear them unto whom I have done so much good 10 Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes * Ex. 14.28 Pharaoh with his servants and all his power have I smitten down 11 * Num. 21.24 Josh 8 and 10 and 12. And all the nations have I destroyed before them and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces even of Tyrus and Sidon and have slain all their enemies 12 Speak thou therefore unto them saying Thus saith the Lord 13 * Ex. 14.29 I led you through the sea and in the beginning gave you a large and safe ‖ Or sheet passage * Ex. 3.10 â—â—d 4.14 I gave you Moses for a leader Aaron for a priest 14 * Ex. 13.21 I gave you light in a pillar of fire and great wonders have I done among you yet have you forgotten me saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith the Almighty Lord The * Ex. 16.13 Ps 105.40 quails were as a token for you I gave you tents for your safeguard nevertheless you murmured there 16 And triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies but ever to this day do ye yet murmure 17 Where are
words surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy God shall be my God and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor and shalt be renowned through the whole earth CHAP. XII 2 Judith will not â—at of Holofernes meat 7 She tarried three days in the camp and every night went forth to pray 13 Bagoas moveth her to be merry with Holofernes 20 who for joy of her company drunk much THen he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats and that she should drink of his own wine 2 And Judith said I * Gen. 43.32 Dan. 1.8 Tob. 1.11 will not eat thereof lest there be an offence but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have brought 3 Then Holofernes said unto her If thy provision should fail how should we give thee the like for there be none with us of thy nation 4 Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth my lord thine hand-maid shall not spend those things that I have before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined 5 Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent and she slept till midnight and she arose when it was towards the morning watch 6 And sent to Holofernes saying Let my Lord now command that thine hand maid may go forth unto prayer 7 Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her thus she abode in the camp three days and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia and washed her self in a fountain of water by the camp 8 And when she came out she besought the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people 9 So she came in clean and remained in the lent until she did eat her meat at evening 10 And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants onely and called none of the officers to the banquet 11 Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch who had charge over all that he had Go now and perswade this Hebrew woman which is with thee that she come unto us and eat and drink with us 12 For lo it will be a shame for our person if we shall let such a woman go not having had her company for if we draw her not unto us she will laugh us to scorn 13 Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes and came to her and he said Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord and to be honoured in his presence and drink wine and be merry with uâ— and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians which serve in the house of Nabuchodonosor 14 Then said Judith unto him Who am I now that I should gainsay my lord surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death 15 So she arose and decked her self with her apparel and all her womans attire and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use that she might sit and eat uâ—on them 16 Now when Judith came in and sat down Holofernes his heart was ravished with her and his minde was moved and he desired greatly her company for he waited a time to deceive her from the day that he had seen her 17 Then said Holofernes unto her Drink now and be merry with us 18 So Judith said I will drink now my lord because my life is magnified in me this day more then all the days since I was borâ— 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared 20 And Holofernes took great delight in her and drank much more wine then he had drunk at any time in one day since he was bâ—rn CHAP. XIII 2 Judith is left alone with Holofernes in his tent 4 She prayeth God to give her strength 7 She cut off his head while he slept 10 and returned with it to Bethulia 17 They saw it and commend her NOw when the evening was come his servants made haste to depart and Bagoas shut his tent without and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord and they went to their beds for they were all weary because the feast had been long 2 And Judith was left alone in the tent and Holofernes lying along upon his bed for he was filled with * Eccluâ— 31.20 25 wine 3 Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand without her bed-chamber and to wait for her coming forth as she did daily for she said she would go forth to her prayers and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose 4 So all went forth and none was left in the bed-chamber neither little nor great Then Judith standing by his bed said in her heart O Lord God of all power look at this present upon the works of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem 5 For now is the time to help thine inheritance and to execute mine enterprises to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us 6 Then she came to the pillar of the bed which was at Holofernes head and took down his fauchion from thence 7 And approached to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head and said Strengthen me O Lord God of Israel this day 8 And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might and she took away his head from him 9 And tumbled his body down from the bed and pulled down the canopy from the pillars and anon after she went forth and gave Holofernes his head to her maid 10 And she put it in her bag of meat so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer and when they passed the camp they compassed the valley and went up the mountain of Bethulia and came to the gates thereof 11 Then said Judith afar off to the watchmen at the gate Open open now the gate God even our God is with us to shew his power yet in Jerusalem and his forces against the enemy as he hath even done this day 12 Now when the men of her city heard her voice they made haste to go down to the gate of their city and they called the elders of the city 13 And then they ran all together both small and great for it was strange unto them that she was come so they opened the gate and received them and made a fire for a light and stood round about them 14 Then she said to them with a loud voice Praise praise God praise God I say for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night 15 So she took the head out of the bag and shewed it and said unto them Behold the head of Holofernes the chief captain of
and their glory shall not be blotted out 14 Their bodies are buried in peace but their name liveth for evermore 15 * Chap. 39.10 The people will tell of their wisdom and the congregation will shew forth their praise 16 * Gen. 5.24 Heb. 11.5 Enoch pleased the Lord and was translated being an example of repentance to all generations 17 * Gen 6.9 7.1 Heb. 11.7 Noah was found perfect and righteous in the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth when the floud came 18 An * Gen. 9.11 everlasting covenant was made with him that all flesh should perish no more by the flood 19 Abraham was a * Gen. 12.2 3. 15.5 17.4 great father of many people in glory was there none like unto him 20 Who kept the law of the most High and was in covenant with him he established the covenant in * Gen. 21.4 his flesh and when he was proved he was found faithful 21 Therefore he assured him by an * Gen. 22.16 17 18. Gal. 3.8 oath that he would bless the nations in his seed and that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth and exalt his seed as the stars and cause them to inherit from sea to sea and from the river unto the utmost part of the land 22 With Isaac did he establish likewise for Abraham his fathers sake the blessing of all men and the covenant 23 And made it rest upon the head of * Gen. 27.28 28.14 Jacob. He acknowledged him in his blessing and gave him an heritage and divided his portions among the twelve tribes did he part them CHAP. XLV 1 The praise of Moses 6 of Aaron 23 and of Phinees ANd he brought out of him a merciful man which found favour in the sight of all flesh even * Exod. 11.3 Moses beloved of God and men whose memorial is blessed 2 He made him like to the glorious saints and magnified him so that his enemies stood in fear of him 3 By his words he caused the wonders to cease and he made him * Exod. 7.8 9 10. chapters glorious in the sight of kings and gave him a commandment for his people and shewed him part of his glory 4 * Num. 12.3 He sanctified him in his faithfulness and meekness and chose him out of all men 5 He made him to hear his voice and brought him into the dark cloud and * Exod. 19.7 gave him commandments before his face even the law of life and knowledge that he might teach Jacob his covenants and Israel his judgements 6 He * Exod. 4.14 exalted Aaron an holy man like unto him even his brother of the tribe of Levi. 7 An everlasting covenant he made with him and gave him the priesthood among the people †Gr. he blessed he beautified him with comely ornaments and clothed him with a robe of glory 8 He put upon him perfect glory and strengthned him with †Gr. vessels or instruments rich garments with breeches with a long robe and the ephod 9 And he compassed him with pomegranates and with many golden bells round about that as he went there might be a * Exod. 28.35 sound and a noise made that might be heard in the temple for a memorial to the children of his people 10 With an holy garment with gold and blue silk and purple the work of the embroiderer with a breast-plate of judgement and with Urim and Thummim 11 With twisted scarlet the work of the cunning workman with precious stones graven like seals and set in gold the work of the jeweller with a writing engraved for a memorial after the number of the tribes of Israel 12 He set a crown of gold upon the mitre wherein was engraved Holiness an ornament of honour a costly work the desires of the eyes goodly and beautiful 13 Before him there were none such neither did ever any stranger put them on but onely his children and his childrens children perpetually 14 Their sacrifices shall be wholly consumed every day twice continually 15 Moses consecrated him and anointed him with holy oyl this was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant and to his seed so long as the heavens should remain that they should minister unto him and execute the office of the priest-hood and bless the people in his name 16 He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifices to the Lord incense and a sweet savour for a memorial to make reconciliation for his people 17 * Deut. 17.10 21.5 He gave unto him his commandments and authority in the statutes of judgements that he should teach Jacob the testimonies and inform Israel in his laws 18 * Numb 16.1 Strangers conspired together against him and maligned him in the wilderness even the men that were of Dathans and Abirons side and the congregation of Core with fury and wrath 19 This the Lord saw and it displeased him and in his wrathful indignation were they consumed he did wonders upon them to consume them with the fiery flame 20 * Numb 17.8 But he made Aaron more honourable and gave him an heritage and divided unto him the first-fruits of the increase especially he prepared bread in abundance 21 For they did eat of the sacrifices of the Lord which he gave unto him and his seed 22 * Deut 12.12 18.1 2. Howbeit in the land of the people he had no inheritance neither had he any portion among the people for the Lord himself is his portion and inheritance 23 * Num. 25.11 12 13. 1 Mac. 2.54 The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord and stood up with good courage of heart when the people were turned back and made reconciliation for Israel 24 Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him that he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people and that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever 25 According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse of the tribe of Juda that the inheritance of the king should be to his posterity alone so the inheritance of Aaron should also be unto his seed 26 God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness that their good things be not abolished and that their glory may endure for ever CHAP. XLVI 1 The praise of Joshua 9 of Caleb 13 of Samuel JEsus * Numb 27.18 Deut. 34 9 Josh 1.2 12.7 the son of Nave was valiant in the wars and was the successour of Moses in prophesies who according to his name was made great for the saving of the elect of God and taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them that he might set Israel in their inheritance 2 How great glory gat he when he
temple 3 In his days the * 1 King 7.23 cistern to receive water being in compass as the sea was covered with plates of brass 4 He took care of the temple that it should not fall and fortified the city against besieging 5 How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of †Gr. the house of the â—â—il the sanctuary 6 He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud and as the moon at the full 7 As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High and as the rainbowe giving light in the bright clouds 8 And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year as lilies by the rivers of waters and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer 9 As fire and incense in the censer and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones 10 And as a fair olive-tree budding forth fruit and as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds 11 When he put on the robe of honour and was clothed with the perfection of glory when he went up to the holy altar he made the garment of holiness honourable 12 When he took the portions out of the priests hands he himself stood by the hearth of the altar compassed with his brethren round about as a young cedar in Libanus and as palm-trees compassed they him round about 13 So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lord in their hands before all the congregation of Israel 14 And finishing the service at the altar that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty 15 He stretched out his hand to the cup and poured of the bloud of the grape he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweet-smelling savour unto the most high King of all 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron and sounded the ‖ Or trumpets beacon forth with the 〈◊〉 silver trumpets and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before the most High 17 Then all the people together hasted and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God almighty the most High 18 The singers also sang praises with their voices with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody 19 And the people besought the Lord the most High by prayer before him that is merciful till the solemnity of the Lord was ended and they had finished his service 20 Then he went down and lifted up his hands over the whose congregation of the children of Israel to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips and to rejoyce in his name 21 And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time that they might receive a blessing from the most High 22 Now therefore bless ye the God of all which onely doth wondrous things every where which exalteth our days from the womb and dealeth with us according to his mercy 23 He grant us joyfulness of heart and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever 24 That he would confirm his mercy with us and deliver us at his time 25 There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth and the third is no nation 26 They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria and they that dwell amongst the Philistines and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem 27 Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge who out of his heart poured forth wisdom 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things and he that sayeth them up in his heart shall become wise 20 For if he do them he shall be strong to all things for the light of the Lord leadeth him who giveth wisdom to the godly Blesses be the Lord forever Amen amen CHAP. LI. ¶ A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach I Will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of the slandrous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries 3 And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatness of thy name from †Gr. the gnashing of the teeth the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had 4 From the choking of fire on every side and from the mids of the fire which I kindled not 5 From the depth of the besly of hell from an unclean tongue and from sying words 6 By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death my life was near to the hell beneath 7 They compassed me on every side and there was no man to help me I looked for the succour of men but there was none 8 Then thought I upon thy mercy O Lord and upon thy acts of old how thou deliverest such as wait for thee and savest them out of the hands of the enemies 9 Then lifted I up my supplication from the earth and prayed for deliverance from death 10 I called upon the Lord the Father of my Lord that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble and in the time of the proud when there was no help 11 I will praise thy name continually and will sing praise with thanksgiving and so my prayer was heard 12 For thou savedst me from destruction and deliveredst me from the evil time therefore will I give thanks and praise thee and bless thy name O Lord. 13 When I was yet young or ever I ‖ Or went astray went abroad I desired wisdom openly in my prayer 14 I prayed for her before the temple and will seek here out even to the end 15 Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her my foot went the right way from my youth up sought I after her 16 I howed down mine ear a little and received her and gat much learning 17 I profited therein therefore will I ascribe the glory unto him that giveth me wisdom 18 For I purposed to do after her and earnestly I followed that which is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soul hath wrestled with her and in my doings I was exact I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above and bewailed my ignorances of her 20 ‖ Or I got understanding I directed my soul unto her and I found her in pureness I have had my heart joyned with her from the beginning therefore shall I not be forsaken 21 My ‖ Or bowâ—lâ— heart was troubled in seeking her therefore have I gotten a good possession 22 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward and I will
place to the devil 28 Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have ‖ Or to distribute to give to him that needeth 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good ‖ Or to edifie profitably to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice 32 And * 2 Cor. 2.10 Col. 3.12 13. be ye kinde one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you CHAP. V. 2 After general exhortations to love 3 to flee fornication 4 and all uncleanness 7 not to converse with the wicked 15 to walk warily and to be 18 filled with the Spirit 22 he descendeth to the particular duties how wives ought to obey their husbands 25 and husbands ought to love their wives 32 even as Christ doth his church BE ye therefore followers of God a dear children 2 And * Joh. 13.24 15.12 walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour 3 But * Col. 3.5 1 Thes 4.3 c. fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as be cometh saints 4 Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks 5 For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of ‖ Or unbelief disobedience 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them 8 For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret 13 But all things that are ‖ Or discovered reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light 14 Wherefore he saith * Isa 60.1 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light 15 * Col. 4.5 See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise 16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is 18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit 19 Speaking to your selves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 21 Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God 22 * Col. 3.18 Tit. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.1 Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 23 For * 1 Cor. 11.3 the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing 25 * Col. 3.19 Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it 26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himself 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church 30 For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones 31 * Gen 2.24 Mat. 19.5 Mar. 10.7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they * 1 Cor. 6.16 two shall be one flesh 32 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ the church 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband CHAP. VI. 1 The duty of children to ward their parents 5 of servants toward their masters 10 Our life is a warfare 12 not onely against flesh and bloud but also spiritual enemies 13 The complete armour of a Christian 18 and how it ought to be used 21 Tychicus is commended * Col. 3.10 CHildren obey your parents in the Lord for this is right 2 * Ex. 20.12 Deu. 5.16 Ecclus. 3.8 Mat. 15.4 Mar. 7.10 Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise 3 That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth 4 And * Col. 3.21 ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 * Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 1 Pet. 2.18 Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembing in singleness of your heart as unto Christ 6 Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart 7 With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free 9 And ye masters do the same things unto them ‖ Or moderating forbearing threatning knowing that ‖ Some read both your and their master your master also is in heaven * Wisd 6.7 Ecclus 35.12 Rom. 2.11 neither is there respect of persons with him 10 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might 11 Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against ‖ Or wicked spirits spiritual wickedness in ‖ Or heavenly high places 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and ‖ Or having overcome all having done all to stand 14 Stand
Salem priest of the most high God who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of Salem which is king of peace 3 Without father without mother †Gr. without pedegree without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God abideth a priest continually 4 Now consider how great this man was unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils 5 And verily * Num. 18.21 they that are of the sons of Levi who receive the office of the priesthood have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law that is of their brethren though they come out of the loyns of Abraham 6 But he whose ‖ Or pedegree descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better 8 And here men that die receive tithes but there he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth 9 And as I may so say Levi also who receiveth tithes payed tithes in Abraham 10 For he was yet in the loyns of his father when Melchisedec met him 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron 12 For the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the law 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar 14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood 15 And it is yet far more evident for that alter the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest 16 Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life 17 For he testifieth * Psal 110.4 Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec 18 For there is verily a disanulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof 19 For the law made nothing perfect ‖ Or but is was the bringing in but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God 20 And in as much as not without an oath he was made priest 21 For those priests were made ‖ Or without swearing of an oath without an oath but this with an oath by him that said unto him * Psal 110.4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament 23 And they truly were many priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death 24 But this man because he continueth ever hath an ‖ Or which pasfeth not from one to another unchangeable priesthood 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them ‖ Or evermore to the uttermost the come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 26 For such an high priest became us who is holy harmless undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens 27 Who needeth not daily as * Levit. 9.7 16.6 those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins and then for the peoples for this he did once when he offered up himself 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity but the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the Son who is †Gr. perfected consecrated for evermore CHAP. VIII 1 By the eternal priesthood of Christ the Levitical priesthood of Aaron is abolished 7 and the temporal covenant with the fathers by the eternal covenant of the gospel NOw of the things which we have spoken this is the sum We have such an high Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens 2 A minister ‖ Or of â—oly things of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man 3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer 4 For if he were on earth he should not be a priest seeing that ‖ Or they are priests there are priests that offer gifts according to the law 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle * Exod. 25. â—0 Acts 7.44 For see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministery by how much also he is the Mediatour of a better ‖ Or testament covenant which was established upon better promises 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second 8 For finding fault with them he saith * Jer. 31.31 32 33 34. Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continued nor in my covenant and I regarded them not saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will †Gr. give put my laws into their minde and write them ‖ Or upon in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more 13 In that he saith A new covenant he hath made the first old Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away CHAP. IX 1 The dâ—scription of the rites and bloudy sacrifices of the law 11 far inferiour to the dignity perfection of the bloud and sacrifice of Christ THen verily the first covenant had also ‖ Or ceâ—â—mâ—nits ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary 2 For there was a tabernable made * â—xod 40. the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the shew-bread which is called ‖ Or holy the sanctuary 3 And after the second vail the
came unto Jeremiah saying 20 Thus saith the LORD * Isa 54.9 Chap. 31.36 if you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night and that their should not be day and night in their season 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne and with the Levites the priests my ministers 22 As * Chap. 3◠37 the host of heaven cannot be numbred neither the sand of the sea measured so will I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister unto me 23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah saying 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken saying The two families which the LORD hath chosen he hath even cast them off thus they have despised my people that they should be no more a nation before them 25 Thus saith the LORD If my covenant be not with day and night and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob for I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them CHAP. XXXIV 1 Jeremiah prophesieth the captivity of Zedekiah and the city 8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants contrary to the covenant of God reassume them 12 Jeremiah for their disobedience obedience giveth them and Zedekiah into the bands of their enemies THe word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD * 2 Kin. 25.1 c. Chap. 52.1 when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth †Heb. the dominion of his hand of his dominion and all the people fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying 2 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him Thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall burn it with fire 3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be * Ch. 32.4 taken and delivered into his hand and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon and †Heb. his mouth shall speak to thy mouth he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth and thou shalt go to Babylon 4 Yet hear the word of the LORD O Zedekiah king of Judah Thus saith the LORD of thee Thou shalt not die by the sword 5 But thou-shalt die in peace and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee so shall they burn odours for thee and they will lament thee saying Ah Lord for I have pronounced the word saith the LORD 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem 7 When the king of Babylons army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left against Lachish and against Azekah for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah 8 ¶ This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem to proclaim * Exod. 21.1 liberty unto them 9 That every man should let his man-servant and every man his maid-servant being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess go free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother 10 Now when all the princes and all the people which had entred into the covenant heard that every one should let his man-servant and every one his maid-servant go free that none should serve themselves of them any more then they obeyed and let them go 11 But afterwards they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for hand-maids 12 ¶ Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying 13 Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bond-men saying 14 At the end of * Exod. 21.2 Deut. 15.12 seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which ‖ Or hath sold himself hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years thou shalt let him go free from thee but your fathers hearkned not unto me neither inclined their ear 15 And ye were †Heb. to day now turned and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour and ye had made a covenant before me in the house †Heb. whereupon my name is called which is called by my name 16 But ye turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his hand-maid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for hand-maids 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD Ye have not hearkned unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you †Heb. for a removing to be * Deut. 28.64 Chap. 29.18 removed into all the kingdoms of the earth 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof 19 The princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the cals 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their * Chap. 7.33 16.4 dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand of the king of Babylons army which are gone up from you 22 Behold I will command saith the LORD and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant CHAP. XXXV 1 By the obedience of the Reehabites 12 Jeremiah condemneth the disobedients of the Jews 18 God blesseth the Rechabites for their obedience THe word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober ‖ Or modest of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach 3 ‖ Or Not ready to quarrel and offer wrong as one in wine Not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous 4 One that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 5 For if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the church of God 6 Not I a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil 7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 10 And let these also first be proved then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless 11 Even to must their wives be grave not slanderers sober faithful in all things 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well 13 For they that have ‖ Or ministreâ—â— used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus 14 These things write I unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly 15 But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the pillar and ‖ Or stay ground of the truth 16 And without controversie great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of angels preached unto the Gentiles beleeved on in the world received up into glory CHAP. IV. 1 He foretelleth that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith 6 And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty be furnisheth him with divers precepts belonging thereto NOw the Spirit speaketh expresly that * 2 Tim. 3.1 in the latter times some shall depart from the saith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisie having their conscience seared with a hot iron 3 Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which beleeve and know the truth 4 For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine whereunto thou hast attained 7 But refuse profane and old wives fables and exercise thy self rather unto godliness 8 For bodily exercise profiteth ‖ Or for a little time little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those that beleeve 11 These things command and teach 12 Let no man despise thy youth but be thou an example of the beleevers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity 13 Till I come give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophesie with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery 15 Meditate upon these things give thy self wholly to them that thy profiting may appear ‖ Or in all things to all 16 Take heed unto thy self and unto thy doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee CHAP. V. 1 Rules to be observed in reproving 3 Of widows 17 Of elders 23 A precept for Timothies health 24 Some mens sins go before unto judgement and some mens do follow after REbuke not an elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren 2 The elder women as mothers the younger as sisters with all purity 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed 4 But if any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew ‖ Or kindness piety at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God 5 Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 6 But she that liveth ‖ Or delicately in pleasure is dead while she liveth 7 And these things give in charge that they may be blameless 8 But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own ‖ Or kindred house he hath denied the faith and is worse then an infidel 9 Let not a widow be ‖ Or chosen taken into the number under threescore years old having been the wife of one man 10 Well reported of for good works if she have brought up children if she have lodged strangers if she have washed the saints feet if she have relieved the afflicted if she have diligently followed every good work 11 But the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry 12 Having damnation because they have cast off their first faith 13 And withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house and not onely idle but tattlers also and busie-bodies speaking things which they ought not 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary †Gr. for their railing to speak reproachfully 15 For some are already turned aside after Satan 16 If any man or woman that beleeveth have widows let them relieve them and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed 17 * 1 Cor. 9 14. Gal. 6.6 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 18 For the scripture saith * Deut 25.4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn and * Marth 10.10 The labourer is worthy of his reward 19 Against an elder receive not an accusation but ‖ Or under before two or three witnesses 20 Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 21 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that thou observe these things ‖ Or without prejudice without preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker
of other mens sins keep thy self pure 23 Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake and thine often infirmities 24 Some mens sins are open before-hand going before to judgement and some men they follow after 25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand and they that are otherwise cannot be hid CHAP. VI. 1 Of the duty of servants 3 Not to have fellowship with new-fangled teachers 6 Godliness is great gain and love of money the root of all evil 11 What Timothy is to flee and what to follow 17 and whereof to admonish the rich 20 To keep the purity of true doctrine and to avoid profane janglings LEt as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed 2 And they that have beleeving masters let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather do them service because they are ‖ Or beleeving faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort 3 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesom words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness 4 He is ‖ Or a fool proud knowing nothing but if doting about questions strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings 5 ‖ Or sick Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thy self 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain 7 For we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have ‖ Or been seduced erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows 11 But thou O man of God flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness 12 Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God who quickneth all things and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good ‖ Or profession confession 14 That thou keep this commandment without spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 15 Which in his times he shall shew who is the blessed and onely Potentate * Rev. 1â— 4 19.16 the King of kings and Lord of lords 16 Who onely hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto * John 1.18 1 John 4 12. whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom be honour and power everlasting Amen 17 Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in †Gr. uncertainty of riches uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy 18 That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute ‖ Or sociable willing to communicate 19 * Matth. 6.20 Luke 12.32 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life 20 O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsly so called 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith Grace be with thee Amen ¶ The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacaâ—iana ¶ The second epistle of PAUL the Apostle to TIMOTHY CHAP. 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Pauls love to Timothy and the unfeigned faith which was in Timothy himself his mother and grandmother 6 He is exhorted to stir up the gift of God which was in him 8 to be stedfast and patient in persecution 13 and to persist in the form and truth of that doctrine which he had learned of him 15 Phygellus and Hermogenes and such like are noted and Onesiphorus is highly commended PAul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus 2 To Timothy my dearly beloved sonâ— Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 4 Greatly dearing to see thee being mindful of thy tears that I may be filled with joy 5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice and I am perswaded that in thee also 6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound minde 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner but he thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God 9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling * Tit. 3.3 not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus * Eph. 1.4 Tit. 1.2 before the world began 10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 11 * 1 Tim. 2.7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have ‖ Or trusted beleeved and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 13 Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost which dwelleth in us 15 This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes 16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain 17 But when he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may finde mercy of the Lord in that day And in how many things he ministred unto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well CHAP. II. 1 He is exhorted again to constaney and